Dee

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dee"

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iː

Proper noun

Dee

1. A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
2. A river in Wales and England that flows about 113 km (70 mi) from Snowdonia to the Irish Sea near Liverpool.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 39:

     And following Dee, which Britons long ygone / Did call divine, that doth by Chester tend; […]

3. A river in Cumbria, England, which flows through Dentdale and joins the River Rawthey near Sedbergh.
4. A river in County Cavan and County Louth, Ireland.
5. A unisex given name, short for names beginning with D.
   • 1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK, published 2008, →ISBN:

     His daughter was called Deirdre, a good Irish name, but now she signed herself Dee, and her man friend was called Fox.

6. A surname of multiple origins.

Derived terms

• Bangor-on-Dee
• Billy Dee
• Deeside
• Miller of Dee

Related terms

• Ardee (Ireland)

Translations

river in Scotland

• Armenian: Դի (Di)
• Irish: Dhé
• Russian: Ди (Di)
• Scots: Dee

river in Wales and England

• Welsh: Dyfrdwy f

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Dee is the 5,535^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6,275 individuals. Dee is most common among White (72.48%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (10.20%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Ede

Latin

Noun

Dee

1. vocative singular of Deus

Manx

Proper noun

Dee f

1. a female given name, very common in the south of Mann in the 19th century

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
Dee	Ghee	Nee
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• Dy, Lee, Li

Etymology

From Hokkien 李 (Lí), via English Dee, with the initial ⟨L⟩ changed to ⟨D⟩ due to /l/~/d/ allophony when the proceeding vowel is either, [i], [e], or [u] in Philippine Hokkien.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /di/ [dɪ]
• Rhymes: -i

Proper noun

Dee (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒ)

1. a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien, most notably borne by:
   • Enchong Dee, Filipino actor, model, and swimmer

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Dee is the 282^nd most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 26,809 individuals.

See also

• See
• Tee
• Wee
• Yee

Yola

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diː/

Proper noun

Dee

1. Dee
   • OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, line 26.

     “The principal of these are named Carrick-a-Shinna, Carrick-a-Dee, and Carrick-a-Foyle, and are respectively 556, 776, and 687 feet above the level of the sea.”

Derived terms

• Carrick-a-Dee

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, page 2