defte

• dewte (Masina Fulfulde)

defte

1. plural of deftere

• Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).

• dafte, daft, deffte

From Old English dæfte, from Proto-West Germanic *daftī (“fitting, suitable”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaft(ə)/, /ˈdɛft(ə)/

defte

1. Mild, polite, respectful, modest.
2. (rare) Unexciting, boring, rude.

• dafftelike

• English: daft, deft
• Scots: daft, dauft

• “dafte, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-17.