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Dee

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English

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 River Dee, Aberdeenshire on Wikipedia
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 River Dee (Ireland) on Wikipedia
 Dee (name) on Wikipedia

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Dee

  1. A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
  2. A river in Wales and England that flows about 113 km (70 mi) from Snowdonia to the Irish Sea near Liverpool.
  3. A river in Cumbria , England , which flows through Dentdale , and joins the River Rawthey near Sedbergh .
  4. A river in County Cavan and County Louth , Ireland .
  5. A locality in Central Highlands Council, central Tasmania , Australia .
  6. 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.
  7. A surname of multiple origins.

Derived terms

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Translations

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river in Scotland
river in Wales and England

Statistics

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  • 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

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Dee (plural Dees )

  1. Alternative letter-case form of dee .

Anagrams

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Latin

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Noun

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Dee

  1. vocative singular of Deus

Manx

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Proper noun

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Dee f

  1. a female given name , very common in the south of Mann in the 19th century

Mutation

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Mutation of Dee
radical lenition eclipsis
Dee Ghee Nee

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

Tagalog

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Etymology

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From Hokkien 李 (Lí), via English Dee , with the initial pronounced as an [l̪] changed to ⟨D⟩ due to [l̪]~[d̪] allophony when the next vowel is either, [i ], [e ], or [u ] in Hokkien.[1] [2]

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Dee (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒ )

  1. a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien
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Statistics

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ Douglas, Carstairs (1873), "D.", in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, With the Principal Variations of the Chang-chew and Chin-chew Dialects. (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 99; New Edition, With Corrections by the Author., Thomas Barclay, Lîm Iàn-sîn 林燕臣 , London: Publishing Office of the Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 99
  2. ^ Van der Loon, Piet (1967), "The Manila Incunabula and Early Hokkien Studies, Part 2", in Asia Major (New Series)‎[1] , volume 13, page 113

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Dee

  1. Dee
    • 1867, "OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR", page 2:
      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.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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References

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  • 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

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