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English

Alternative forms

• dir.

Noun

dir (plural dirs)

1. Abbreviation of direction.
2. (computing) Abbreviation of directory.
3. Abbreviation of director.

Adjective

dir (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of direct.

Adverb

dir

1. Abbreviation of directly.

Anagrams

• D.R.I., DRI, IDR, rid

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin ?re, present active infinitive of e?; the forms beginning with V from corresponding forms of v?d?; the forms beginning with F from the corresponding forms of sum.

Verb

dir

1. to go

Conjugation

From http://ast.oslin.org/index.php?action=lemma&lemma=17232

Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?/

Noun

dir m

1. steel

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan dir, from Latin d?cere, present active infinitive of d?c?, from Proto-Italic *deik?, from Proto-Indo-European *déy?ti (“to show, point out”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?di/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?di?/

Verb

dir (first-person singular present dic, past participle dit)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to say, to pronounce
2. (transitive) to say, to tell

3. (transitive) to call, to refer to as
4. (reflexive) to be named, to be called

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• diure (Alghero)

Derived terms

• dir-se
• és a dir
• voler dir

Related terms

• dicció
• dictar
• entredir

Further reading

• “dir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “dir” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “dir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “dir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

German

Alternative forms

• Dir

Etymology

From Middle High German dir, from Old High German dir, from Proto-Germanic *þiz.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /di???/
• Rhymes: -i???
• (colloquially in unstressed position) IPA^(key): /d?/, /d?/

Pronoun

dir

1. (personal) dative of du; you, to you.
2. (reflexive) dative of du; yourself, to yourself.

Further reading

• “dir” in Duden online

Italian

Verb

dir

1. Apocopic form of dire

Luxembourgish

Alternative forms

• der (unstressed)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di??/, [?di?.?], [di??]
• Rhymes: -i??
• Homophones: dier, Dier, Dir

Etymology 1

From Old High German dir.

Pronoun

dir

1. second-person singular, dative: you; thee

Etymology 2

From Old High German ir. The d- is through unetymological segmentation of the ending -t of a preceding verb (*stitt ir ? *stiddir ? stitt dir). This development was assisted by a parallelism with the 1st person, in which the dative singular mir is also the nominative plural (this latter development occurred for a similar reason, but was earlier and is widespread throughout High German).

Pronoun

dir

1. second-person plural, nominative: you; you all; ye

Derived terms

• Dir (singular and plural polite form)

Declension

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• dire

Etymology

From a contraction of Latin d?c?, d?cere.

Verb

dir

1. to say

Descendants

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German dir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di???/

Pronoun

dir

1. to you

Declension

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Latin d?rus.

Adjective

dir m (feminine singular dira, masculine plural dirs, feminine plural diras)

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Rumantsch Grischun) hard

Alternative forms

• (Surmiran) deir
• (Puter, Vallader) dür

Etymology 2

From a contraction of Latin d?c?, d?cere, from Proto-Indo-European *dey?- (“to show, point out”).

Verb

dir

1. to say

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader) dir
• (Sutsilvan) gir
• (Surmiran) deir

Etymology 3

Noun

dir m (plural dirs)

1. (anatomy, Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) liver

Alternative forms

• (Surmiran) deir

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) gnirom
• (Surmiran) nirom
• (Puter) gniram
• (Puter) fio

Somali

Verb

dir

1. send

Tolai

Pronoun

dir

1. Third-person dual pronoun: they two, them two

Declension

Venetian

Etymology

From a contraction of Latin d?cere (compare Italian dire), present active infinitive of d?c?.

Verb

dir

1. (transitive) to say, tell
2. (transitive) to affirm

Conjugation

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Welsh

Noun

dir

1. soft mutation of tir (“land”)

Mutation

English

Alternative forms

• diff

Etymology

Shortened from difference

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?f

Noun

dif (plural difs)

1. difference

Anagrams

• DFI, FDI, Fid., IDF, fid