Dee
See also: Appendix:Variations of "dee"
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /diː/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iː
Proper noun
Dee
- A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
- A river in Wales and England that flows about 113 km (70 mi) from Snowdonia to the Irish Sea near Liverpool.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 39:
- And following Dee, which Britons long ygone / Did call divine, that doth by Chester tend; […]
- A river in Cumbria, England, which flows through Dentdale, and joins the River Rawthey near Sedbergh.
- A river in County Cavan and County Louth, Ireland.
- A unisex given name, short for names beginning with D.
- 1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK, published 2008, →ISBN:
- His daughter was called Deirdre, a good Irish name, but now she signed herself Dee, and her man friend was called Fox.
- A surname of multiple origins.
Derived terms
Related terms
- Ardee (Ireland)
Translations
river in Wales and England
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Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Dee is the 5,535th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6,275 individuals. Dee is most common among White (72.48%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (10.20%) individuals.
Noun
Dee (plural Dees)
- Alternative letter-case form of dee.
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
Dee
- vocative singular of Deus
Manx
Proper noun
Dee f
- a female given name, very common in the south of Mann in the 19th century
Mutation
radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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Dee | Ghee | Nee |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Tagalog
Etymology
From Hokkien 李 (Lí), via English Dee, with the initial pronounced as an [l̪] changed to ⟨D⟩ due to [l̪]~[d̪] allophony when the next vowel is either, [i], [e], or [u] in Hokkien.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /di/ [d̪ɪ]
- Rhymes: -i
- Syllabification: Dee
Proper noun
Dee (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒ)
- a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien, most notably borne by:
- Enchong Dee, Filipino actor, model, and swimmer
Related terms
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Dee is the 282nd most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 26,809 individuals.
See also
References
- ^ Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “D.”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, With the Principal Variations of the Chang-chew and Chin-chew Dialects. (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 99; New Edition, With Corrections by the Author., Thomas Barclay, Lîm Iàn-sîn 林燕臣, London: Publishing Office of the Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 99
- ^ Van der Loon, Piet (1967) “The Manila Incunabula and Early Hokkien Studies, Part 2”, in Asia Major (New Series)[1], volume 13, page 113
Yola
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /diː/
Proper noun
Dee
- Dee
- OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, line 26.
- “The principal of these are named Carrick-a-Shinna, Carrick-a-Dee, and Carrick-a-Foyle, and are respectively 556, 776, and 687 feet above the level of the sea.”
- OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, line 26.
Derived terms
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 2