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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)

1. Any period of 24 hours.

2. A period from midnight to the following midnight.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:day

3. (astronomy) Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth).

4. The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
5. 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

6. 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

7. A period of contention of a day or less.

8. (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)

1. (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)

1. 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

1. (colloquial) A familiar address to a girl.
2. A familiar address to a daughter.

Kalasha

Verb

day

1. 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)

1. day (composed of 24 hours)

2. day (as opposed to night)

3. daylight, sunlight
4. epoch, age, period
5. 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

1. Alternative form of þei (“they”)

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English day

Noun

day (plural days)

1. day
2. (in the definite singular) today

English

Noun

yeara (uncountable)

1. Toxicodendron diversilobum, western poison oak.