# dej
## Albanian
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *duai-au, from Proto-Indo-European *duo-, from the root *du (“two”). Cognate to Old High German zweio (“by, in two, in pairs”). A frozen locative dual form.

#### Adverb

dej
* after (tomorrow)

##### Alternative forms

* deh

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *deni̯ō, from Proto-Indo-European *dheh1- (“to suck, drink”). Cognate to Sanskrit धयति (dháyati, “to suck”) and Latvian det (“to suck”). Present deh, dej arose secondarily under the influence of the non-active paradigm.

#### Verb

dej (aorist dejta, participle dejtur)
* (to get) drunk

### References

* ↑ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 125
* ↑ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 125

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈdɛj]

### Verb

dej
* second-person singular imperative of dát

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Danish degh, from Old Norse deigr, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold”). Compare Swedish deg, Norwegian Nynorsk deig, German Teig, West Frisian daai, Dutch deeg, English dough.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /daːj/
* Rhymes: -ajˀ

### Noun

dej c (singular definite dejen, plural indefinite deje)
* dough (mix of flour and water)
* paste (flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry)
* batter (a beaten mixture of flour and liquid, usually egg and milk, used for baking)

#### Declension
### References

* “dej” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Latvian
### Verb

dej
* inflection of diet:
** second/third-person singular present indicative
** third-person plural present indicative
** second-person singular imperative
* (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of diet
* (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of diet

## Lower Sorbian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɛj/, [dej]

### Noun

dej m inan
* The name of the Latin-script letter d/D.

### Verb

dej
* third-person singular present of dejaś

### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) a, bej, cej, čet, ćej, dej, ej, ět, ef, gej, ha, cha, i, jot, ka, eł, el, em, en, ejn, o, pej, er, ejŕ, es, eš, śej, tej, u, wej, y, zet, žet, źej

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɟej]

### Noun

dej m inan (relational adjective dejový)
* plot, storyline
* process
    Synonym: proces

#### Derived terms

* dejovo, dejove
* dejovosť

### Further reading

* “dej”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Swedish
### Pronoun

dej
* (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of dig.
** 1989, Eva Dahlgren (lyrics and music), “Ängeln i rummet [The angel in the room]”‎:Det bor en ängel i mitt rum. Hon har sitt bo ovanför mitt huvud. Hon gör mej lugn. Och hon viskar till mej allt det jag säger dej.There is an angel living in my room [it lives an angel in my room]. She has her dwelling [usually of animals, especially nests] above my head. She puts me at ease [makes me calm]. And she whispers to me all the things that [all that (which)] I say to you.

#### Usage notes

Popular (along with mej) as a semi-informal spelling around the 1970s to 1980s, and therefore seen in many old song lyrics for example. Usage has now mostly reverted back to dig.

#### See also

* mej

## Vlax Romani
### Noun

dej f
* mother

### References

* Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “dej”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 66
* Marcel Courthiade (2009) “e d/ej², -ia ʒ. -ia, -ien = e d/ej³, -a ʒ. -a, -en”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 122

## White Hmong
### Etymology

From Proto-Hmong *ɢlæwᴬ (“river”), probably related to Proto-Mon-Khmer *ruŋ (“river”) and Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kl(j)u(ŋ/k) (“river, valley”); see there for more.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /de˥˧/

### Noun

dej (classifier: tus (for streams and watercourses))
* water
* stream, river

#### Derived terms

* da dej (“to bathe; to take a shower”)

### References

* Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 34.
* ↑ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 274.
* ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25