deh

deh

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Dehwari terms

deh

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

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

• IPA^(key): /tɯ˧/

deh

1. chopstick

• guhdeh

• děh

deh

1. water

• Patience Epps, A Grammar of Hup (2008)

Borrowed from Betawi Kota dèh, from Betawi udè, udah (perfective marker). Doublet of sudah and udah.

dèh

1. (Jakarta, colloquial) adds emphasis at the end of a phrase or a sentence

   Iya, deh, aku yang salah.

   Alright, okay, I'm the one at fault.

   Kayaknya bukan kamu, deh.

   I don't think it was you, actually.

   Karena kita telat, jadi kelewatan, deh.

   Because we're late, we missed it, unfortunately.

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

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

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?

From Proto-Iranian *dáca, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dáća,^[1] 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.

• IPA^(key): /dɛh/
• Rhymes: -ɛh
• Hyphenation: deh

deh

1. ten

• IPA^(key): /deːx/

dēh (Anglian)

1. alternative form of dēg

• IPA^(key): /deːx/

dēh f (Anglian)

1. alternative form of dēg

Strong ō-stem:

• IPA^(key): /deːx/

dēh (Anglian)

1. alternative form of dēg

deh

1. obsolete form of de

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

Contraction of dinnae.

• IPA^(key): /dɛː/

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)

• 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)

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

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

deh

1. river

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

deh

1. water

• 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