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3-letter words (2 found)

DEY,DYE,

2-letter words (3 found)

DE,ED,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 6 words from dey according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of dey

dey edy dye yde eyd yed

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Definitions and meaning of dey

dey

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /deɪ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪ
  • Homophone: day

Etymology 1

From Middle English deye, deie, daie, from Old English dǣġe (“maker of bread; baker; dairy-maid”), from Proto-West Germanic *daigijā, from Proto-Germanic *daigijǭ (“kneader of bread, maid”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, build”). Cognate with Swedish deja, Icelandic deigja (“dairy-maid”); compare dairy, dough, lady.

Alternative forms

  • daie, deie, deye

Noun

dey (plural deys)

  1. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.
Related terms
  • dairy
  • lady

Etymology 2

From French dey, from Ottoman Turkish دایی (modern Turkish dayı).

Noun

dey (plural deys)

  1. (historical) The ruler of the Regency of Algiers (now Algeria) under the Ottoman Empire.

Etymology 3

Pronoun

dey

  1. Pronunciation spelling of they, representing dialects with th-stopping in English.
  2. Pronunciation spelling of there, representing African American Vernacular English or Caribbean English.

Etymology 4

From Tamil டேய் (“hey!”).

Pronunciation

  • (Singapore) IPA(key): [ˈde(ː)]

Interjection

dey

  1. (Singapore, Malaysia, slang, rare, between friends) A familiar term of address conveying extra emphasis at the end of sentences.
Usage notes

Used after lah (Sense 1) in most cases.

References

  • “dey”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “dey”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • Dye, d'ye, dye, ye'd, yed

Cameroon Pidgin

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /de/

Etymology 1

From English there.

Predicative

dey

  1. there is, there are, indicates presence in a location
Alternative forms
  • deiy
See also
  • na (“copula for noun phrases, indicates existence”)

Etymology 2

From English they.

Pronoun

dey

  1. they, 3rd person plural subject personal pronoun
See also

Etymology 3

From English day.

Noun

dey

  1. day
Alternative forms
  • dei

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دایی (dayı), from Persian دایی (dâyi, “maternal uncle”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛj/

Noun

dey m (plural deys)

  1. dey (ruler of the Regency of Algiers)

Further reading

  • “dey”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English they, adjusted to German phonology and suppleted with plural forms of demonstrative pronoun die.

dem, demm are borrowed from English them.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛɪ̯/

Pronoun

dey

  1. (neologism) they (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun.

Declension

  • Nominative: dey
  • Accusative: demm or dey or dem (with a short vowel)
  • Dative: denen or demm or dem (with a short vowel)
  • Genitive: deren
  • Possessive: deren

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /teiː/
  • Rhymes: -eiː

Verb

dey

  1. inflection of deyja:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دایی (dayı), from Persian دایی (dâyi, “maternal uncle”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɛj/
  • Rhymes: -ɛj

Noun

dey m (invariable)

  1. dey (ruler of the Regency of Algiers)

References

Kalasha

Etymology

From Persian ده (deh).

Noun

dey

  1. village
    Synonym: grom

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

dey

  1. Alternative form of day

Etymology 2

Pronoun

dey

  1. Alternative form of þei (“they”)

Etymology 3

Noun

dey

  1. Alternative form of dee

Nigerian Pidgin

Alternative forms

  • deh

Etymology

From English there.

Verb

dey

  1. to be

Old Norse

Verb

dey

  1. inflection of deyja:
    1. first-person singular present active indicative
    2. second-person singular present active imperative

Yola

Noun

dey

  1. Alternative form of die (“day”)

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867

Zaghawa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dey/

Noun

dey

  1. foot, leg
  2. footstep

References

  • Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad

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