daid

English

Adjective

daid (not comparable)

(dialect) Nonstandard spelling of dead.
- 1910, Robert W. Chambers, Ailsa Paige‎^[1]:
  "I c-can't he'p myse'f," stammered Celia; "you say such frightful things to me—you tell me that they happen in my own house—in her own room—How can I be calm? How can I believe such things of—of Constance Berkley—of yo' daid mother——"
- 1916, Peggy Edmund, Harold W. Williams, compilers, Toaster's Handbook‎^[2]:
  "I wish I wuz daid. 'Tain' nothin' but wuk, wuk from mawnin' tell night."
- 1919, Henry Herbert Knibbs, The Ridin' Kid from Powder River‎^[3]:
  "Why, he's daid!" he exclaimed, poking the lion with the muzzle of his gun.
- 1922, Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar‎^[4]:
  Ah, Mistah 'Possum, we got you at las'—
  Need n't play daid, laying dah on de groun';
  Fros' an' de 'simmons has made you grow fas',—
  Won't he be fine when he's roasted up brown!
- 1929, Carl Henry Grabo, The Cat in Grandfather's House‎^[5]:
  In de mawnin' w'en he go to milk de cow, sho'nuf dey wuz a hawg a-lyin' on its side, daid.

Anagrams

Dida, diad

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English dad.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ˠadʲ/

Noun

daid m (genitive singular daid, nominative plural daideanna)

(informal) dad

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of *daid*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
daid	dhaid	ndaid

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

Northern Sami

Determiner

daid

accusative/genitive plural of dat

Welsh

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dai̯d/

Noun

daid

soft mutation of taid (“grandfather”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of *taid*
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
taid	daid	nhaid	thaid

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