दी

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• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /d̪iː/

दी • (dī) f

1. elder sister

   Synonyms: दीदी (dīdī), जीजी (jījī)

दी • (dī)

1. inflection of देना (denā):
   1. feminine singular perfective participle
   2. feminine singular perfect indicative

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /diː/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /d̪iː/

From Proto-Indo-European *deyh₂- (“to shine, be bright”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δῆλος (dêlos, “visible, conspicuous”) and possibly Lithuanian di̇̀dis (“large”).

दी • (dī)

1. to shine, be bright
2. to excel, please, be admired

• दिव् (div)
• दीप् (dīp)

From Proto-Indo-European *deyh₁- (“to chase (away)”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δῐ́ω (dĭ́ō, “flee”), Lithuanian dainà (“song”).

• डी (ḍī)

दी • (dī) (Vedic)

1. to soar, fly

Primary Verbal Forms

Non-Finite Forms

• Monier Williams (1899) “दी”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 480.
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “दी”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
• William Dwight Whitney (1885) The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 74

• Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “दी”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
• Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 328
• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 108
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “183”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 183