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DeyEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Persian دی.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗deyEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English deye, deie, daie, from Old English dǣġe (“maker of bread; baker; dairy-maid”), from Proto-West Germanic *daigijā, from Proto-Germanic *daigijǭ (“kneader of bread, maid”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, build”). Cognate with Swedish deja, Icelandic deigja (“dairy-maid”); compare dairy, dough, lady.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗deyEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From French dey, from Algerian Arabic داي from Ottoman Turkish دایی (modern Turkish dayı).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗deyEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
From Tamil டேய் (“hey!”).
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Chambers (1908)
1908- DeyEnglish · e-37683-7494
Dey, dā, n. a dairy-maid. [See Dairy.]
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Dey, dā, n. a name given to the pasha or governor of Algiers before the French conquest. [Turk, dái, orig. a maternal uncle, a familiar title of the chief of the Janizaries.]
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