did

See also Did

Translingual

Alternative forms

• (roman numeral): DID, CMXCIX, cmxcix

Wikipedia

Number

did

1. (informal) A Roman numeral representing nine hundred and ninety-nine (999).

See also

• Previous: diid (nine hundred and ninety-eight, 998)
• Next: dd (one thousand, 1000)

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English

Etymology

From Middle English didde, dude, from Old English dyde, *diede, from Proto-Germanic *dedǭ, first and third person singular past indicative of Proto-Germanic *dōną (“to do”). Cognate with Scots did (“did”), West Frisian die (“did”), Dutch deed (“did”), German tat (“did”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɪd/, X-SAMPA: /dId/

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• Rhymes: -ɪd

Verb

did

1. Simple past of do.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:

     she with liquors strong his eyes did steepe, / That nothing should him hastily awake [...].

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.v:

     The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thristy heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes display, / Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget / His former paine [...].

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.v:

     He made him stoup perforce vnto his knee, / And do vnwilling worship to the Saint, / That on his shield depainted he did see [...].

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: should · can · made · #83: did · such · great · must

Anagrams

• DDI
• idd

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Old Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dīyo- (“day”), *dījos (compare Old Irish día), from Proto-Indo-European *di̯ēus, *dyew-.

Noun

did m

1. day

Descendants

• Welsh: dydd