“dej”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2025
Det bor en ängel i mitt rum. Hon har sitt bo ovanför mitt huvud. Hon görmej lugn. Och hon viskar till mej allt det jag sägerdej.
There is an angel living in my room [it lives an angel in my room]. She has her dwelling [usually of animals, especially nests] above my head. She puts me at ease [makes me calm]. And she whispers to me all the things that [all that (which)] I say toyou.
Popular (along withmej) as a semi-informal spelling around the 1970s to 1980s, and therefore seen in many old song lyrics for example. Usage has now mostly reverted back todig.
Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “dej”, inWörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag,→ISBN, page66
Marcel Courthiade (2009), “e d/ej², -ia ʒ. -ia, -ien = e d/ej³, -a ʒ. -a, -en”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor,Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher,→ISBN, page122