deh
- (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forDehwari.
deh
- (Singlish, Manglish)Alternative spelling ofdey(“informalterm of address used when trying to get someone's attention.”)
Borrowed fromChinese箸 (MC drjoH, “chopstick”). Cognate withZhuangdawh(“chopstick”).
deh
- chopstick
deh
- water
- Patience Epps,A Grammar of Hup (2008)
Borrowed fromBetawi Kotadèh, fromBetawiudè,udah (perfective marker).Doublet ofsudah andudah.
dèh
- (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 fromLatindee, vocative form ofdeus(“god, deity”).
deh(poetic, literary)
- used to introduce a prayer or request or a wishful statement;ah!,oh!
1321,Dante Alighieri,La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published1994,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?
FromProto-Iranian*dáca, fromProto-Indo-Iranian*dáća,[1] fromProto-Indo-European*déḱm̥. CompareAvestan𐬛𐬀𐬯𐬀(dasa),Persianده(dah),Ossetianдӕс(dæs),Pashtoلس(ləs),Sanskritदश(daśa),Urduدس(das), alsoArmenianտասը(tasə),Ancient Greekδέκα(déka),Russianдесять(desjatʹ),Latindecem,Englishten.
deh
- ten
- ^Benjamin W. Fortson IV (2010) “Indo-Iranian I: Indic”, inIndo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction, 2nd edition, page203
deh
- Obsolete form ofde.
- deh in Academia Română,Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010.→ISBN
Contraction ofdinnae.
deh
- (Southern Scots, Edinburgh, Northern Scots)don't
- Adeh 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 isdoesnae, ordisnae in the Borders)
FromProto-Athabaskan[Term?]. Cognates includeNavajotooh andDogribdeh.
- IPA(key): [tɛ̀(h)]
- Hyphenation:deh
deh
- river
1) Used when the subject is a group of human beings
and the object is singular.
2) Used when the previous condition does not apply.
- Keren Rice (1989)A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter,→ISBN, page213
deh
- 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
