# Dee
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /diː/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -iː

### Proper noun

Dee
* A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
* A river in Wales and England that flows about 113 km (70 mi) from Snowdonia to the Irish Sea near Liverpool.
** 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 39:And following Dee, which Britons long ygone / Did call divine, that doth by Chester tend; […]
* A river in Cumbria, England, which flows through Dentdale, and joins the River Rawthey near Sedbergh.
* A river in County Cavan and County Louth, Ireland.
* A unisex given name, short for names beginning with D.
** 1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK, published 2008, →ISBN:His daughter was called Deirdre, a good Irish name, but now she signed herself Dee, and her man friend was called Fox.
* A surname of multiple origins.

#### Derived terms

* Bangor-on-Dee
* Billy Dee
* Deeside
* Miller of Dee

#### Related terms

* Ardee (Ireland)

#### Statistics

* According to the 2010 United States Census, Dee is the 5,535th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6,275 individuals. Dee is most common among White (72.48%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (10.20%) individuals.

### Noun

Dee (plural Dees)
* Alternative letter-case form of dee

### Anagrams

* Ede

## Latin
### Noun

Dee
* vocative singular of Deus

## Manx
### Proper noun

Dee f
* a female given name, very common in the south of Mann in the 19th century

### Mutation
## Tagalog
### Alternative forms

* Dy, Lee, Li

### Etymology

From Hokkien 李 (Lí), via English Dee, with the initial ⟨L⟩ changed to ⟨D⟩ due to /l/~/d/ allophony when the proceeding vowel is either, [i], [e], or [u] in Hokkien.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /di/ [d̪ɪ]
* Rhymes: -i
* Syllabification: Dee

### Proper noun

Dee (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒ)
* a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien, most notably borne by:
** Enchong Dee, Filipino actor, model, and swimmer

#### Statistics

* According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Dee is the 282nd most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 26,809 individuals.

#### See also

* See
* Tee
* Wee
* Yee

### References

* ↑ Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “D.”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 99; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 99
* ↑ Van der Loon, Piet (1967) “The Manila Incunabula and Early Hokkien Studies, Part 2”, in Asia Major (New Series)‎, volume 13, page 113

## Yola
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /diː/

### Proper noun

Dee
* Dee
** OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, line 26.
    “The principal of these are named Carrick-a-Shinna, Carrick-a-Dee, and Carrick-a-Foyle, and are respectively 556, 776, and 687 feet above the level of the sea.”

#### Derived terms

* Carrick-a-Dee

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 2