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See also: Appendix:Variations of "did"

Translingual

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Etymology

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Clipping of English Didinga.

Symbol

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did

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Didinga.

See also

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English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /dɪd/
  • Audio (Canada):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪd

Verb

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did

  1. simple past of do
    Jeez, did I make a mistake!
    I never did like her much.
    What did happen when the principal found out?
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 254:
      Then ſhe with liquors ſtrong his eies did ſteepe, / That nothing ſhould him haſtily awake […]
    • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 110:
      Monsieur Thuran became a frequent visitor at the home of Hazel Strong’s uncle in Cape Town. His attentions were very marked, but they were so punctiliously arranged to meet the girl’s every wish that she came to depend upon him more and more. Did she or her mother or a cousin require an escort—was there a little friendly service to be rendered, the genial and ubiquitous Monsieur Thuran was always available.
  2. (nonstandard, especially Southern US, African-American Vernacular) past participle of do; done
    • 2008 March 1, Jody Miller, Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence‎[1], NYU Press, →ISBN, page 140:
      […] But I don't care, I mean I don't even care. She shouldn't have did that."
    • 2010 October 10, Jeanette R Davidson, quoting Bea Jenkins, African American Studies‎[2], Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 189:
      We have to take this brutality. We haven't did anything. Why?
    • 2013 June 12, “Shoulda Woulda” (track 16), in Project Baby‎[3], performed by Kodak Black:
      I should've did […] Should've turned down, now I'm really on it. Should've, could've did. Would've could've did […] Ooh, I should've did em in.
    • 2014 May 6, Taylor Anderson, Deadly Shores‎[4], Penguin, →ISBN, page 288:
      “Spanky—I mean, the exec, Mr. McFaarlane, say the number four gun has did for another cruiser, but they all gonna drown, aft, as much water as the screws is throwin' up!"
    • 2022, Nas, “Legit”, in King's Disease III:
      On my soul, this for my kids and the cold shit I done did

Derived terms

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Anagrams

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Danish thiæt, from Old Norse þit.

Adverb

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did

  1. (archaic) thither, to there, towards that place

Synonyms

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Coordinate terms

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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did f (genitive singular dide, nominative plural dideanna)

  1. alternative form of dide (“teat, nipple”)

Declension

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Declension of did (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative did dideanna
vocative a dhid a dhideanna
genitive dide dideanna
dative did dideanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an did na dideanna
genitive na dide na ndideanna
dative leis an did
don did 		leis na dideanna

Mutation

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Mutated forms of did
radical lenition eclipsis
did dhid ndid

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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Jamaican Creole

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Etymology

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Derived from English did.

Pronunciation

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Particle

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did

  1. Marks the past tense.
    Im did wel rich. Nou im poor.
    He was very rich. Now he's poor.
    • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Jan 1:40:
      Saiman Piita did av wan breda niem Anju. Nou, Anju a did wan a Jan tuu falara dem we did fala Jiizas afta dem ier wa Jan did se bout im.
      Simon Peter had a brother named Andrew. Andrew was one of John's two followers that followed Jesus after hearing what John said about him.

Further reading

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  • did at majstro.com

Lombard

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Etymology

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Akin to Italian dito, from Latin digitus.

Noun

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did

  1. finger

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Pronoun

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did

  1. obsolete spelling of de (“you (plural)”)

Old Welsh

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Etymology

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From Proto-Brythonic *dið, from Proto-Celtic *dīyos (“day”) (compare Old Irish día), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws, *dyew-.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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did m

  1. day

Descendants

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  • Middle Welsh: dyð

Palauan

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Etymology

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From Pre-Palauan *ðiðe, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taytay.

Noun

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did

  1. bridge
  2. ladder

Derived terms

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  • melid (“to cross over on a bridge”)

References

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  • did in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
  • did in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
  • did in Lewis S. Josephs; Edwin G. McManus; Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977), Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 78.

Romagnol

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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did m (plural) (Ravenna)

  1. finger

Serbo-Croatian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dědъ.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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dȉd m anim (Cyrillic spelling ди̏д)

  1. (Ikavian) grandfather

Declension

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Declension of did
singular plural
nominative dȉd dìdovi/didi
genitive dida didova/dida
dative didu didovima/didima
accusative dida didove/dide
vocative dide didovi/didi
locative didu didovima/didima
instrumental didom didovima/didima

Slavomolisano

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Etymology

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From Ikavian Serbo-Croatian did.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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did m

  1. grandfather

Declension

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Declension of did (anim series-1b masc cons-stem)
singular plural
nominative did
 dida
genitive dida
 did, didi
dative didu
 didami, didi
accusative did, dida
 dida
locative didu
 dida
instrumental didom, didam
 didami, didi

References

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  • Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale).

Yola

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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did

  1. simple past of doone
    • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 94:
      Maade a nicest coolecannan that e'er ye did zee.
      Made the nicest coolecannan that ever you did see.

Derived terms

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References

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  • 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 94
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