dy

dy

1. Obsolete form of die.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XII:

     The lether-winged Bat, dayes enimy, / The ruefull Strich, still waiting on the bere, / The Whistler shrill, that who so heares, doth dy […]

From Dutch dij, from Middle Dutch die, from Old Dutch *thio, from Proto-Germanic *þeuhą.

• IPA^(key): [də̟i̯]

dy (plural dye, diminutive dytjie)

1. thigh

From Proto-Albanian *duwō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.

• IPA^(key): /dy/

dy

1. two

• dytë

dy (imperative dy, infinitive at dy, present tense dyr, past tense dyede, perfect tense har dyet)

1. (reflexive) to restrain oneself, to help oneself
   • 2012, Richard Russo, Åndernes rige, Klim →ISBN

     Han er egentlig for klog til det, men han kan ikke dy sig.

     He is actually too clever for it, but he cannot help himself.

   • 2010, Mette Winge, Et udestående: - en provisorietidsroman, Gyldendal A/S →ISBN

     Han var lige ved at tilføje at der ikke havde været anført noget om sagen i de franske aviser, men han dyede sig, for politiinspektøren hørte ikke til dem man opmuntrede med vitser.

     He was just about to add that there had been no note of the case in the French papers, but he restrained himself, for the police inspector did not belong to those people that one cheered up with jokes.

   • 2009, Hanne Reintoft, Hjertebånd, ArtPeople →ISBN

     De havde dyet sig og nøjedes med den tilmålte ration uden at stikke fingrene hverken i slunkne melsække eller halvtomme sulekar.

     They had restrained themselves and made do with the measured ration without sticking their fingers in lacking flour bags, nor in half-empty meat jars.

dy

1. Alternative transliteration of dj.

dy

1. first-person singular present indicative of dire

dy c

1. mud, mire, sludge

dy

1. two

• dypansj

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dy (definite, feminine and plural form of dyr)

1. The; declined form of dyr

• IPA^(key): /də/

dy

1. your sg

   dy dŷ du di ― your black house

Dy triggers the soft mutation. Di often appears after the noun.

Compare Dutch die.

• IPA^(key): /di/

dy

1. that, those

• Common singular: dy
• Neuter singular: dat
• Plural: dy

• “dy (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

From Old Frisian thī, from Proto-Germanic *þiz.

• (Clay) IPA^(key): /dɛi̯/
• (Wood) IPA^(key): /di/

dy

1. object of do

• “dy (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

• di

From Old Norse því, possibly from the instrumental interrogative Proto-Germanic *hwī (“how, with what”), with the initial h- replaced by the þ- from the forms of *sa. The modern Westrobothnian form with d- instead of t- (see tykken) probably evolved thus: við því → við ðví → modern ve ‿ dy/di "with that".

dy

1. dative singular of he