dyd

dyd

1. Obsolete spelling of did.

From Old Norse dygð (“virtue”), cognate with Norwegian, Swedish dygd, from Proto-Germanic *dugiþō, a variant of *dugunþō in English douth, German Tugend, Dutch deugd. These words are derived from the verb *duganą (“to be useful”), hence Danish du.

• IPA^(key): [ˈd̥yðˀ], [ˈd̥yˀð]

dyd c (singular definite dyden, plural indefinite dyder)

1. virtue
2. chastity
3. virginity

• dydig ("virtuous")
• dydsiret
• dydsdragon
• dydsmønster

• du (verb) ("to be fit (for)", "to be good (for)", "work", "function")
• dygtig (adjective) ("able", "capable", "clever", "skillful")

• dyd on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

From Old Welsh did, from Proto-Celtic *dīyos (“day”).

• IPA^(key): /dɨːð/

dyð m

1. day

• Welsh: dydd

From Old Norse dygð through Danish dyd. Doublet of dygd.

dyd m (definite singular dyden, indefinite plural dydar, definite plural dydane)

1. virtue

• “dyd” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ydd

• IPA^(key): /dyːd/

dȳd

1. singular imperative of dȳdan

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Kuyavia) IPA^(key): /ˈdɘt/

dyd m inan (diminutive dydek)

1. (Kuyavia) synonym of cyc

• Władysław Matlakowski (1892) “dyd”, in Słownik wyrazów ludowych zebranych w Czerskiem i na Kujawach (in Polish), Kraków: nakł. Akademii Umiejętności; Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego pod zarządem A. M. Kosterkiewicza, page 4

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /dɨːd/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /diːd/

dyd

1. (literary) third-person singular present/future of dodi