deh

See also: děh and deȟ

Translingual

Symbol

deh

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Dehwari.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Dehwari terms

English

Interjection

deh

1. (Singlish, Manglish) Alternative spelling of dey (“informal term of address used when trying to get someone's attention.”)

Bouyei

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɯ˧/

Noun

deh

1. chopstick

Synonyms

• guhdeh

Hupdë

Alternative forms

• děh

Noun

deh

1. water

References

• Patience Epps, A Grammar of Hup (2008)

Italian

FWOTD – 20 March 2016

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Interjection

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?

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *dáca, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dáća, 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.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛh

Numeral

Central Kurdish	دە (de)

deh

1. ten

Romanian

Interjection

deh

1. Obsolete form of de.

References

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

Scots

Etymology

Contraction of dinnae.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛː/

Contraction

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)

Usage notes

• 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)

South Slavey

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

deh

1. river

Inflection

Possessive inflection of deh (-dehé)

		singular	plural
1st person		sedehé	naxedehé
2nd person		nedehé
3rd person	1)	—	gidehé
	2)	medehé	godehé
4th person		yedehé
reflexive	sp.	ɂededehé	kededehé
	unsp.	dedehé
reciprocal		—	ɂełedehé
indefinite		ɂedehé
areal		godehé
1) Used when the subject is a group of human beings and the object is singular. 2) Used when the previous condition does not apply.

References

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

Yuhup

Noun

deh

1. water

References

• 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