dè

See also: Appendix:Variations of "de"

Eastern Maninkakan

Alternative scripts
  • ߘߋ߬ (nko)

Noun

dè

  1. certainly
    Synonym: dɛ́

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈdɛ/
  • Homophone: deh
  • Rhymes: -ɛ
  • Hyphenation: dè

Verb

dè

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

Anagrams

Mandarin

Alternative forms
  • de — nonstandard

Romanization

dè (de4, Zhuyin ㄉㄜˋ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嘚

Romagnol

Noun

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

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tʲeː/, /tʃeː/
  • (Lewis) IPA(key): /t̪eː/

Etymology 1

Clipping of ciod è (older caidhe, caide, goidé) from Old Irish cote (“what is the nature of?, of what kind is?”),[1][2] synchronically analyzable as ciod + e, compare Irish caidé.

Pronoun

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.
Usage notes
Derived terms

Interjection

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?

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cote”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. E. G. Quin (1966) “Irish Cote”, in Ériu, volume 20, Royal Irish Academy, →JSTOR, pages 140–150

Noun

dè m

  1. genitive singular of dia

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
dèdhè
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Vietnamese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Verb

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

Derived terms
Derived terms
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