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dè

See also: Appendix:Variations of "de"

Eastern Maninkakan

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Noun

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dè

  1. certainly
    Synonym: dɛ́

Italian

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dè

  1. (also poetic) Obsolete form of deve, third-person singular present indicative of dovere

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Mandarin

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Romanization

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dè (de4, Zhuyin ㄉㄜˋ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嘚

Romagnol

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Noun

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dè m (invariable)

  1. day
    • 1920, Olindo Guerrini, edited by Zanichelli, Sonetti romagnoli, published 1967:
      Donca aví da savé che un dé a Bulogna andè in butega da un barbir, zett zett, cun una cherta ch'a i' aveva scrett
      And so you have to know that on day I went to a barber's shop, quietly, with a paper that I've written

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology 1

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Clipping of ciod è (older caidhe, caide, goidé) from Old Irish cote (“what is the nature of?, of what kind is?”),[6][7] synchronically analyzable as ciod + e, compare Irish caidé.

Pronoun

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dè

  1. what
    Dè tha thu ag iarraidh? ― What do you want? (literally, “What are you at wanting?”)
    Chan eil cuimhn' aice dè thuirt e. ― She doesn't remember what he said.
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Interjection

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dè?

  1. huh? pardon? what?
  2. Used to form tag questions in informal speech.
    Thàinig iad feasgar, dè? ― They came in the afternoon, didn't they?

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  1. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  2. ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN
  3. ^ Mac Gill-Fhinnein, Gordon (1966) Gàidhlig Uidhist a Deas, Dublin: Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath
  4. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  5. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. II: The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  6. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cote”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  7. ^ E. G. Quin (1966) “Irish Cote”, in Ériu, volume 20, Royal Irish Academy, →JSTOR, pages 140–150

Etymology 2

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Noun

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dè m

  1. genitive singular of dia

Mutation

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Mutation of dè
radical lenition
dè dhè

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Vietnamese

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Etymology

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Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 提/堤/隄 (“to guard against”, SV: đề).

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Verb

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dè • (提, 𠽮, 咦, 移)

  1. to stint (on); to economise
  2. to take care over; to spare
  3. to foresee; to foreknow; to expect

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