deh

Borrowed from Chinese 箸 (MC drjoH, “chopstick”). Cognate with Zhuang dawh (“chopstick”).

• IPA^(key): /tɯ˧/

deh

1. chopstick

• guhdeh

• děh

deh

1. water

• Patience Epps, A Grammar of Hup (2008)

Probably from Latin dee, vocative form of deus (“god, deity”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛ/
• Homophone: dè
• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: dèh

deh (poetic, literary)

1. used to introduce a prayer or request or a wishful statement; ah!, oh!
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto X, page 321 vv. 91-93:

     Deh, or mi dì: quanto tesoro volle
     Nostro Segnore in prima da San Pietro
     ch'ei ponesse le chiavi in sua balia?

     I pray thee tell me now how great a treasure
     Our Lord demanded of Saint Peter first,
     before he put the keys into his keeping?

From Proto-Iranian *dáca, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dáća,^[1] from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥. Compare Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬯𐬀 (dasa), Persian ده (dah), Ossetian дӕс (dæs), Pashto لس (ləs), Sanskrit दश (daśa), Urdu دس (das), also Armenian տասը (tasə), Ancient Greek δέκα (déka), Russian десять (desjatʹ), Latin decem, English ten.

• Rhymes: -ɛh

deh

1. ten

deh

1. Obsolete form of de.

• deh in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Contraction of dinnae.

• IPA^(key): /dɛː/

deh

1. (Southern Scots, Edinburgh, Northern Scots) don't

   A deh ken what ee mean! (example is in South Scots; "what" would be replaced by "whit" or "fit" and "ee" with "ye" in other Scots dialects)

• Not used interrogatively and is not used in the third-person singular (the third-person singular equivalent of that is doesnae, or disnae in the Borders)

From Proto-Athabaskan [Term?]. Cognates include Navajo tooh and Dogrib deh.

• IPA^(key): [tɛ̀(h)]
• Hyphenation: deh

deh

1. river

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 213

deh

1. water

• Jesús Mario Girón, Una gramática del wãńsöjöt (puinave) (2008): 'agua' (en hup y yuhup: deh, en nadëb: naʔɤy, en daw: nɤx, o en níkak cande)
• HG