English Explanatory Dictionary

dey

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.
noun
  1. The ruler of the Regency of Algiers (now Algeria) under the Ottoman Empire.
pron
  1. Pronunciation spelling of their, representing African-American Vernacular English.
  2. Pronunciation spelling of there, representing African-American Vernacular English or Caribbean English.
  3. Pronunciation spelling of they, representing dialects with th-stopping in English
intj
  1. An informal Tamil-language term of address used when trying to get someone's attention.
name
  1. The tenth solar month of the Persian calendar.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/deɪ/ [ˈde(ː)]

Word forms

dey deys dai dei deye deh

Etymology

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.

Related words

dairy lady
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