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day
English
Alternative forms
- daie, daye (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English day, from Old English dæ? (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?og??-o-s, from *d?eg??- (“to burn”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dai (“day”), West Frisian dei (“day”), Dutch dag (“day”), German Low German Dag (“day”), Alemannic German Däi (“day”), German Tag (“day”), Swedish, Norwegian and Danish dag (“day”), Icelandic dagur (“day”). Cognate also with Albanian djeg (“to burn”), Lithuanian degti (“to burn”), Tocharian A tsäk-, Russian ???? (že??, “to burn”) from *degti, ?????? (djógot?, “tar, pitch”), Sanskrit ??? (d?há, “heat”), ???? (dáhati, “to burn”), Latin fove? (“to warm, keep warm, incubate”).
Latin di?s is a false cognate; it derives from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“to shine”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?, IPA(key): /de?/
- Rhymes: -e?
- Homophone: dey
Noun
day (plural days)
- Any period of 24 hours.
- A period from midnight to the following midnight.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:day
- (astronomy) Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth).
- The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
- Part of a day period between sunrise and sunset where one enjoys daylight; daytime.
- Synonyms: daylight, upsun; see also Thesaurus:daytime
- Antonyms: night; see also Thesaurus:nighttime
- A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.
- This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
- If they had no more food than they had had in Jones's day, at least they did not have less.
- Synonyms: era, epoch; see also Thesaurus:era
- A period of contention of a day or less.
- (meteorology) A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: dei
Translations
See day/translations § Noun.
References
- Day (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
day (third-person singular simple present days, present participle daying, simple past and past participle dayed)
- (rare, intransitive) To spend a day (in a place).
See also
- (days of the week) day of the week; Sunday,? Monday,? Tuesday,? Wednesday,? Thursday,? Friday,? Saturday (Category: en:Days of the week) [edit]
- Sabbath
- calendar
Anagrams
- d'ya, y'ad, yad
Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Common Turkic *d?y.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [d?j]
Noun
day (definite accusative day?, plural daylar)
- colt, foal
Declension
Derived terms
- dayça
References
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) , “ta:y”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Further reading
- “day” in Obastan.com.
Cebuano
Etymology
Initial clipping of inday.
Pronunciation
- (General Cebuano) IPA(key): /?d?a?/
- Rhymes: -a?
- Hyphenation: day
Noun
day
- (colloquial) A familiar address to a girl.
- A familiar address to a daughter.
Kalasha
Verb
day
- I am
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English dæ?, from Proto-West Germanic *dag
Alternative forms
- dai, dæi, dey, da?, dæ?, dei, daye, da??, da?h, dai?, *dah
Pronunciation
- (Early ME) IPA(key): /daj/, /d?j/
- IPA(key): /d?i?/
Noun
day (plural dayes or days or dawes)
- day (composed of 24 hours)
- day (as opposed to night)
- daylight, sunlight
- epoch, age, period
- A certain day.
Antonyms
- nyght
Related terms
Descendants
- English: day
- Scots: day
- Yola: dei, die
References
- “dai, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.
Etymology 2
Pronoun
day
- Alternative form of þei (“they”)
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English day
Noun
day (plural days)
- day
- (in the definite singular) today
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ight
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English iht, ei?t, e?te, æihte, from Old English ?ht (“possessions, property, riches”), from Proto-Germanic *aihtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *?yk- (“to have, own, be able to”).
Noun
ight (uncountable)
- (obsolete) possession
Alternative forms
- eight, aught
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Contraction
ight
- (slang) Alternative form of aight
References
- “Ight” listed on page 30 of volume V (H–K), § ii (I) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1901]
??Ight, var. eighte, Aught sb.¹?Obs., possession.?[¶]?1390 Gower Conf. II. 378 This Priamus had in his ight [MS. Fairfax 3 yhte] A wife and Hecuba she hight. - “ight” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]
Anagrams
- ghit, gith, thig, tigh
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