dej

See also: Dej, dëj, and děj

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *duai-au, from Proto-Indo-European *duo-, from the root *du (“two”). Cognate to Old High German zweio (“by, in two, in pairs”). A frozen locative dual form.

Adverb

dej

1. after (tomorrow)

Alternative forms

• deh

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *deni̯ō, from Proto-Indo-European *dheh1- (“to suck, drink”). Cognate to Sanskrit धयति (dháyati, “to suck”) and Latvian det (“to suck”). Present deh, dej arose secondarily under the influence of the non-active paradigm.

Verb

dej (aorist dejta, participle dejtur)

1. (to get) drunk

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɛj]

Verb

dej

1. second-person singular imperative pf of dát

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish degh, from Old Norse deigr, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold”). Compare Swedish deg, Norwegian Nynorsk deig, German Teig, West Frisian daai, Dutch deeg, English dough.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daːj/
• Rhymes: -ajˀ

Noun

dej c (singular definite dejen, plural indefinite deje)

1. dough (mix of flour and water)
2. paste (flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry)
3. batter (a beaten mixture of flour and liquid, usually egg and milk, used for baking)

Declension

Declension of dej

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	dej	dejen	deje	dejene
genitive	dejs	dejens	dejes	dejenes

References

• “dej” in Den Danske Ordbog

Latvian

Verb

dej

1. inflection of diet:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person singular imperative
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of diet
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of diet

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛj/, [dej]

Noun

dej m inan

1. The name of the Latin-script letter d.

Verb

dej

1. third-person singular present of dejaś

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) a, bej, cej, čet, ćej, dej, ej, ět, ef, gej, ha, cha, i, jot, ka, eł, el, em, en, ejn, o, pej, er, ejŕ, es, eš, śej, tej, u, wej, y, zet, žet, źej

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɟɛj/

Noun

dej m inan (genitive singular deja, nominative plural deje, genitive plural dejov, declension pattern of stroj)

1. plot, storyline
2. process

   Synonym: proces

Declension

Declension of dej

	singular	plural
nominative	dej	deje
genitive	deja	dejov
dative	deju	dejom
accusative	dej	deje
locative	deji	dejoch
instrumental	dejom	dejmi

Derived terms

• dejový
• dejovo, dejove
• dejovosť

Further reading

• “dej”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Swedish

Pronoun

dej

1. (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of dig.
   • 1989, Eva Dahlgren (lyrics and music), “Ängeln i rummet [The angel in the room]”:

     Det bor en ängel i mitt rum. Hon har sitt bo ovanför mitt huvud. Hon gör mej lugn. Och hon viskar till mej allt det jag säger dej.

     There is an angel living in my room [it lives an angel in my room]. She has her dwelling [usually of animals, especially nests] above my head. She puts me at ease [makes me calm]. And she whispers to me all the things that [all that (which)] I say to you.

Usage notes

Popular (along with mej) as a semi-informal spelling around the 1970s to 1980s, and is therefore seen in many old song lyrics, for example. Usage has now mostly reverted back to dig.

Declension

Swedish personal pronouns

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					common	neuter	plural
singular	first	—	jag	mig, mej3	min	mitt	mina
	second	—	du	dig, dej3	din	ditt	dina
	third	masculine (person)	han	honom, han2, en5	hans
		feminine (person)	hon	henne, na5	hennes
		gender-neutral (person)1	hen	hen, henom7	hens
		common (noun)	den	den	dess
		neuter (noun)	det	det	dess
		indefinite	man or en4	en	ens
		reflexive	—	sig, sej3	sin	sitt	sina
plural	first	—	vi	oss	vår, våran2	vårt, vårat2	våra
	second	—	ni	er	er, eran2, ers6	ert, erat2	era
		archaic	I	eder	eder, eders6	edert	edra
	third	—	de, dom3	dem, dom3	deras
		reflexive	—	sig, sej3	sin	sitt	sina

¹Neologism. Usage has increased since 2010, and has gained widespread acceptance today.

²Informal

³Colloquial pronunciation spelling.

⁴Dialectal, also used lately as an alternative to man, to avoid association to the male gender.

⁵Informal, somewhat dialectal

⁶Formal address

⁷Discouraged by the Swedish Language Council

See also

• mej

Vlax Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Romani daj.

Noun

dej f

1. mother

References

• Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “dej”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 66
• Marcel Courthiade (2009) “e d/ej², -ia ʒ. -ia, -ien = e d/ej³, -a ʒ. -a, -en”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 122

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong *ɢlæwᴬ (“river”), probably related to Proto-Mon-Khmer *ruŋ (“river”) and Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kl(j)u(ŋ/k) (“river, valley”); see there for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de˥˧/

Noun

dej (classifier: tus (for streams and watercourses))

1. water
2. stream, river

Derived terms

• da dej (“to bathe; to take a shower”)

 

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[3], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 34.