# dè
## Eastern Maninkakan
### Alternative scripts

* ߘߋ߬ (nko)

### Noun

dè
* certainly
    Synonym: dɛ́

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɛ/
* Homophone: deh
* Rhymes: -ɛ
* Hyphenation: dè

### Verb

dè
* (also poetic) Obsolete form of deve, third-person singular present indicative of dovere

### Anagrams

* ed, ed.

## Mandarin
### Alternative forms

* de — nonstandard

### Romanization

dè (de$^4$, Zhuyin ㄉㄜˋ)
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嘚

## Romagnol
### Noun

dè m (invariable)
* day
** 1920, Olindo Guerrini, edited by Zanichelli, Sonetti romagnoli, published 1967:Donca aví da savé che un dé a Bulogna andè in butega da un barbir, zett zett, cun una cherta ch'a i' aveva screttAnd so you have to know that on day I went to a barber's shop, quietly, with a paper that I've written

## Scottish Gaelic
### Alternative forms

* dé (superseded)
* gu dè (emphatic)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d̥ʒeː/
* (Lewis, Wester Ross) IPA: /d̪̊eː/

### Etymology 1

Clipping of ciod è (older caidhe, caide, goidé) from Old Irish cote (“what is the nature of?, of what kind is?”), synchronically analyzable as ciod + e, compare Irish caidé.

#### Pronoun

dè
* what
    Dè tha thu ag iarraidh? ― What do you want? (literally, “What are you at wanting?”)
    Chan eil cuimhn' aice dè thuirt e. ― She doesn't remember what he said.

##### Usage notes

* If followed by the future tense, the relative future tense is used.
    Dè a bhios sibh a' dèanamh? ― What will you do?
* An emphatic form gu dè is sometimes used.

##### Derived terms

* ge be dè
* dè na

#### Interjection

dè?
* huh? pardon? what?
* Used to form tag questions in informal speech.
    Thàinig iad feasgar, dè? ― They came in the afternoon, didn't they?

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

dè m
* genitive singular of dia

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Mac Gill-Fhinnein, Gordon (1966) Gàidhlig Uidhist a Deas, Dublin: Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath
* ↑ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
* ↑ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. II: The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
* ↑ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
* ↑ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cote”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ E. G. Quin (1966) “Irish Cote”, in Ériu, volume 20, Royal Irish Academy, →JSTOR, pages 140–150

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 提/堤/隄 (“to guard against”, SV: đề).

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [zɛ˨˩]
* (Huế) IPA: [jɛ˦˩]
* (Saigon) IPA: [jɛ˨˩]

### Verb

dè • (提, 𠽮, 咦, 移)
* to stint (on); to economise
* to take care over; to spare
* to foresee; to foreknow; to expect

#### Derived terms

* ăn dè
* chém tre không dè đầu mặt
* dè chừng
* dè dặt
* dè sẻn
* e dè
* kiêng dè