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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 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.

  6. A surname of multiple origins.

river in Scotland

river in Wales and England

  • 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.

Dee

  1. vocative singular of Deus

Dee f

  1. a female given name, very common in the south of Mann in the 19th century
Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
Dee Ghee Nee
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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.[1][2]

Dee (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒ)

  1. a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien, most notably borne by:
  • According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Dee is the 282nd most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 26,809 individuals.
  1. ^ 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
  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

Dee

  1. 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.”
  • 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