English
Adjective
daid (not comparable)
- Nonstandard spelling of dead.
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1910, Robert W. Chambers, Ailsa Paige:- How can I believe such things of--of Constance Berkley--of yo' daid mother----" "I don't know," he said dully.
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1916, Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers, Toaster's Handbook:- He rose, stretched, and grumbled: "I wish I wuz daid.
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1919, Henry Herbert Knibbs, The Ridin' Kid from Powder River:- "Why, he's daid!" he exclaimed, poking the lion with the muzzle of his gun.
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1922, Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar:- Ah, Mistah 'Possum, we got you at las'-- Need n't play daid, laying dah on de groun'; Fros' an' de 'simmons has made you grow fas',-- Won't he be fine when he's roasted up brown!
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1929, Carl Henry Grabo, The Cat in Grandfather's House:- In de mawnin' w'en he go to milk de cow, sho'nuf dey wuz a hawg a-lyin' on its side, daid.
Irish
Etymology
From English dad.
Pronunciation
Noun
daid m (genitive singular daid, nominative plural daideanna)
- (informal) dad
Synonyms
Mutation
| Irish mutation |
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Eclipsis |
| daid
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dhaid
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ndaid
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Welsh
Noun
daid
- soft mutation of taid