dede

1. Obsolete spelling of deed.

• 'deed, deed

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• Rhymes: -eːdə
• IPA^(key): /ˈdeːdə/

dede

1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of doen

• deed

• 'dede

From Yoruba dede ("agreeable").

• IPA^(key): /de.de/

dede

1. correct
2. exact

dede

1. exactly

• Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdədə/ [ˈdɨː.dɨ]
• Rhymes: -ədə
• Syllabification: de‧de

dë́dë

1. pushing forward, thrust on, displace

• Morice Vanoverbergh (1933), “déde”, in A Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay. As it is spoken at Bauco (Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek; XII)‎^[1], Mödling bei Wien, St. Gabriel, Österreich: Verlag der Internationalen Zeitschrift „Anthropos“, →OCLC, page 125
• Allen, Larry (2021), “déde”, in Kankanaey – English Dictionary, Summer Institute of Linguistics
• Wallace, Judy (2018), “dede”, in Northern Kankanay – English Dictionary, Summer Institute of Linguistics

dede

1. to stand

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011), “dede”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 14

dēde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dēdō

dēde

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of doen

dede n

1. alternative spelling of déde

From Portuguese and Spanish dedo and Kabuverdianu dedu.

dede

1. finger

From English dead.

• IPA^(key): /ˈde.de/

dede

1. dead

dede

1. death

dede

1. to die
   • 1936, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances S. Herskovits, Suriname folk-lore‎^[2], New York: Columbia University Press, page 424:

     Bɔfru dɛ krei̯, Dia dɛ krei̯, Tamanwa 'ɛ krei̯. Nō mō ala den meti 'ɛ gowe wą' wą'. Nō mō Hagu drapɛ, 'ɛ bari, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / Mi yɛre suma dɛdɛ, / Ma karaki dɛ bro.’

     [Bofru e krei, Dia e krei, Tamanwa e krei. Nomo ala den meti e gwe wanwan. Nomo Agu drape e bari, 'Bia, bia, bia / Mi yere suma dede / Ma karaki e bro.']

     Buffalo was crying, Deer was crying, Anteater was crying. No sooner did all the animals go away one by one, than Hog called out, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / I hear a person died, / But his backside breathes.’

• dodo

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈdede/ [ˈd̪ɛː.d̪ɛ], /ˈdedeʔ/ [ˈd̪ɛː.d̪ɛʔ]
• Rhymes: -ede, -edeʔ
• Syllabification: de‧de

dede or dedè (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜇᜒ) (informal)

1. baby bottle of milk; baby's milk
2. feeding of milk from the breast or a baby bottle (of a baby)

   Synonyms: suso, pagsuso

3. feeding time of a baby for milk
4. (anatomy) breast; teat

   Synonym: suso

From Ottoman Turkish دده (dede), from Proto-Oghuz [Term?] (baba, dede), from baby talk like many other words for close family.

• IPA^(key): [dede]

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dede (definite accusative dedeyi, plural dedeler)

1. grandfather

• büyük baba
• büyük peder
• cet

• “dede”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “dede”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

• IPA^(key): [deɾ̠e]

dede

1. the greater bulldog bat, Noctilio leporinus
2. bat in general
3. a basket motif featuring four interlocking images facing outward from a central point, with each image consisting of two small diamonds embraced by one or more larger V-shapes

• Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “dede”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela]‎^[3] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 126
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980), “dede”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
• Guss, David M. (1989), To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 116, 117, 202–203: “dede”

Cognate with Itsekiri dede, Ọ̀wọ̀ Yoruba gede, Olukumi gèdè, Èkìtì Yoruba kete, Ìdànrè Yoruba kete, Western Àkókó Yoruba kete

• IPA^(key): /dē.dē/

dede

1. (Ijebu, Ikalẹ, Ilajẹ, Ondo, Ẹgba) all, everything, everyone

   Ọlọ́un á kẹ́ dede ẹni ― God will care for all of us (Ijebu)

This noun often looks and acts as a qualifier or determiner, and while usually before nouns, can occasionally come after. Some examples:

• Dede olùkù mi fẹ́ràn ẹ̀bà jíjẹ. ― All of my friends love to eat eba.
• Ìgbà dede ― All the time

However, it is not a traditional adjective as when it's combined with subject pronouns, it becomes ungrammatical and must be used with the possessive pronouns, showing that it's a noun in the spoken varieties of the Èdè-Yorùbá-Ìṣẹkírì continuum. An example:

• Dede ẹni yún Èkó. ― All of us went to Lagos.

In the example above, the possessive pronoun, ẹni (“our”), instead of a (“we”), as Dede a yún Èkó would be ungrammatical.

Compare with Ifè ǹɖe

• IPA^(key): /dè.dē/

dède

1. (Ekiti) alternative form of dìde (“to stand, get up, rise”)