different between wees vs dees

English

Verb

wees

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wee

Anagrams

• ewes, swee

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• wies (Cape Afrikaans)

Etymology

From Dutch wezen, from Proto-Germanic *wesan?. See Dutch zijn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??s/

Verb

wees (present is, present participle synde, past was, past participle gewees)

1. To be.

Usage notes

• Unlike other Afrikaans verbs, the past participle of wees (gewees) does not usually take the auxiliary verb het to form the perfect tense unless a modal verb is being used: Ek sou baie kwaad gewees het as jy dit gedoen het. (“I would have been very angry if you had done this.”) Outside of this construction, het gewees is rarely encountered and is considered nonstandard. The actual perfect tense of wees is is gewees, but this form is also very rare, being usually replaced with either was or was gewees. (The latter is formally a pluperfect, but is generally used without any semantic distinction.)

Conjugation

Anagrams

• sewe

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?s/
• Rhymes: -e?s

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch wêse, from Old Dutch w?so, from Proto-West Germanic *waiso, of uncertain origin, with no solid cognates outside of Germanic; possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?wid?éwh? (“widow”).

Cognate with German Waise, Middle Low German wêse, probably Old English *w?sa (in wuduw?sa).

Noun

wees m or f (plural wezen, diminutive weesje n)

1. An orphan, person or animal having survived both parents.
2. An orphaned one, left out of a sequence.

Derived terms

• halfwees, halve wees
• verweesd
• volle wees
• weeshuis
• weesjongen
• weeskamer
• weeskind
• weesmeester
• weesvader
• weesziekte

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

wees

1. imperative of zijn
2. imperative of wezen

Derived terms

• weesgegroet

Verb

wees

1. singular past indicative of wijzen

References

• Taaladvies.net on ‘wees’ or ‘ben’

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian wesa, which derives from Proto-West Germanic *wesan, from Proto-Germanic *wesan?.

Verb

wees

1. (Föhr-Amrum, Heligoland) to be

Conjugation

Spanish

Noun

wees m pl

1. plural of we

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse hvæsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wè?s]

  Rhymes: -è?s

Verb

wees

1. (intransitive) To hiss
2. (intransitive) To whiz, blow.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?z/

Noun

dees

1. plural of dee, the name of the letter D.
2. Something shaped like the letter D.

3. (colloquial) Police detectives.

Anagrams

• EDES, Seed, dese, sede, seed

Catalan

Noun

dees

1. plural of dea

Latin

Verb

d?es

1. second-person singular present active imperative of d?sum
2. second-person singular present active indicative of d?sum

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?s/
• Rhymes: -e?s

Etymology 1

Possibly from Middle High German deist (“that is”), contraction of daz or dat + ist. Compare German es sei denn (literally “it be then”) and the use of English that is to introduce a specification or additional requirement.

Alternatives include some formation with Luxembourgish ees (“once, sometime”), from Middle High German eins, or possibly a contraction similar to Dutch tenzij, based on Middle High German et en s? (“it be not”), where the loss of the stressed final syllable would be unexpected, however.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Conjunction

dees

1. unless

Synonyms

• ausser

Etymology 2

Inflected form of doen (“to do, to make”).

Verb

dees

1. second-person singular present indicative of doen

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

dees

1. Alternative form of deis (“dais”)

Etymology 2

From Old French des, plural of de. Owing to the noun's frequent use in the plural, sometimes, as in Modern English, reinterpreted as a singular.

Alternative forms

• dis, dys, des, dise, dyse, deis, deys, dez, dice, dyce, dies, dyes, deisse, deysse, disse, dysse

Noun

dees

1. plural of dee (“die”)

Noun

dees (plural dees or dyses)

1. Synonym of dee (“die”)

Descendants

• English: dice
• Scots: dice

Semai

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer [Term?]. Compare Koho dous (“debt; fine”).

Noun

dees

1. debt

Adjective

dees

1. bad

Synonyms

• (bad): nèc, nic

References