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語源 1

From 中期英語 deye, deie, daie, from 古期英語 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.

別の表記

• dai, dei, deye

名詞

dey (plural deys)

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

関連する語

• dairy
• lady

語源 2

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

名詞

dey (plural deys)

1. (historical) The ruler of the Regency of Algiers (now Algeria) under the Ottoman Empire.
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 29:

     […] the reigning Dey of Algiers (half of whose twenty-eight predecessors are said to have met violent ends) lost his temper with the French consul, struck him in the face with a fly-whisk, and called him ‘a wicked, faithless, idol-worshipping rascal’.

語源 3

代名詞

dey

1. Pronunciation spelling of their, representing African-American Vernacular English.
2. Pronunciation spelling of there, representing African-American Vernacular English or Caribbean English.
   • 2012, G. Modele Dale Clarke, Up in Mahaica: Stories from the Market People (ebook), Xlibris:

     “Boy, is horrors over dey, for so,” he said, obviously excited and anxious to be the bearer of extraordinary news. “Wat happen, somebody dead?”

3. Pronunciation spelling of they, representing dialects with th-stopping in English

語源 4

From Tamil டேய் (“hey!”).

別の表記

• deh, dei

発音

• (Singapore) IPA: [ˈde(ː)]

間投詞

dey

1. (Singlish, Manglish) An informal Tamil-language term of address used when trying to get someone's attention.
   • 2007, Elangovan, P, Singapore, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 46:

     Dey! Did you press the lift button? What? You have pressed the button for the tenth time?

   • 2012 February 7 [2007], Laremy Lee, Radio Silence, →ISBN:

     Dei, you think what, President’s Star Charity ah?

   • 2007 September 10, Sandra Leong, The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, →OCLC, page 6:

     If a player makes a silly mistake, he doesn’t wail when told to “wake up lah, dey”.

使用する際の注意点

Only commonly used by the younger generation and Tamil speakers.

参照

• “dey”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “dey”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

アナグラム

• Dye, d'ye, dye, ye'd, yed

名詞

dey

1. alternative form of day

語源 2

代名詞

dey

1. alternative form of þei (“they”)

語源 3

名詞

dey

1. alternative form of dee

語源 4

動詞

dey

1. (Early Scots; Late Middle English, Warwickshire) alternative form of deyen (“to die”)