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Dee
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Appendix:Variations of "dee"
English
River +, Aberdeenshire
River +, Wales
River +, Cumbria
River + (Ireland)
+ (name)
Pronunciation
en /diː/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Dee.wav Southern England
en iː 1
Proper noun
en river carea/Aberdeenshire cc/Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
en river cc/Wales and cc/England that flows about 113 km (70 mi) from Snowdonia to the Irish Sea near Liverpool. en Rivers in Wrexham, Wales Places in Wrexham, Wales
IV XI 39 And following Dee, which Britons long ygone / Did call divine, that doth by Chester tend;
en river co/Cumbria cc/England which flows through x/Dentdale and joins the River Rawthey near town/Sedbergh.
en river co/Cavan and co/Louth c/Ireland.
en locality council:Suf/Central Highlands central s/Tasmania c/Australia.
en unisex, short for names beginning with D.
en 1996 w:Maeve Binchy This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury Hachette UK 2008 9781409105404 His daughter was called Deirdre, a good Irish name, but now she signed herself Dee, and her man friend was called Fox.
en of multiple origins.
Derived terms
en Bangor-on-Dee Billy Dee Deeside Miller of Dee Mount Dee
Related terms
en Ardee Ireland
Translations
river in Scotland
Armenian: hy Դի
Irish: ga Dhé
Russian: ru Ди
Scots: sco Dee
river in Wales and England
Welsh: cy Dyfrdwy f
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.
Noun
en dee.
Anagrams
en dee Ede
en diminutives of female given names
Latin
Noun
la noun form
la Deus voc s
Manx
Proper noun
gv proper noun f
gv female, very common in the south of Mann in the 19th century
Mutation
D ee
Tagalog
Etymology
From tl nan-hbl - 李 Lí, via tl en Dee, with the initial pronounced as an [l̪] changed to D due to [l̪]~[d̪] allophony when the next vowel is either, [i], [e], or [u] in Hokkien.D. 99Van der Loon Piet 1967 The Manila Incunabula and Early Hokkien Studies, Part 2 http://www2.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/file/1745sWSSKnQ.pdf Asia Major New Series en 13 113
Pronunciation
Di
Proper noun
di
tl Chinese Filipino Hokkien
Related terms
tl Dy Lee Li
Statistics
Dee 282nd 26,809
See also
tl See Tee Wee Yee
References
Yola
Pronunciation
yol /diː/
Proper noun
yol proper noun
Dee
1867, “OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR“, page 2:
yol 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
yol Carrick-a-Dee
References
2
yol Places