Dee

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See also: dee, dée, dèe, dêe, and -dę́ę́ʼ

English

 River Dee, Aberdeenshire on Wikipedia
 River Dee, Wales on Wikipedia
 River Dee, Cumbria on Wikipedia
 River Dee (Ireland) on Wikipedia

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /diː/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • 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.
  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 female given name, short for names beginning with D.
    • 1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK (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

Translations

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Dee is the 5,535th 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.

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Anagrams

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

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "nan-hok" is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF. 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.[1]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Dee

  1. a Chinese Filipino surname from Min Nan, most notably borne by:

Statistics

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

See also

References

  1. ^ Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “D.”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 99; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 99
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