day

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day

  1. (international standards)ISO 639-2&ISO 639-5language codeforLand Dayak languages.

English

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Etymology

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    Middle Englishday
    Englishday

    InheritedfromMiddle Englishday,fromOld Englishdæġ(“day”),fromProto-West Germanic*dag,fromProto-Germanic*dagaz(“day”);see there for more.

    Cognate withSaterland FrisianDai(“day”),West Frisiandei(“day”),Dutchdag(“day”),German Low GermanDag(“day”),Alemannic GermanDäi(“day”),GermanTag(“day”),Swedish,NorwegianandDanishdag(“day”),Icelandicdagur(“day”),Gothic𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃(dags,“day”).Possible cognates beyond Germanic relatives includeAlbaniandjeg(“to burn”),Lithuaniandegti(“to burn”),Tocharian Atsäk-,Russianжечь(žečʹ,“to burn”)from *degti,дёготь(djógotʹ,“tar, pitch”),Sanskritदाह(dāhá,“heat”),दहति(dáhati,“to burn”),Latinfoveō(“to warm, keep warm, incubate”).

    Latindiēsis afalse cognate;it derives fromProto-Indo-European*dyew-(“to shine”).

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    enPR:dā

    Noun

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    day(pluraldays)

    1. The time when theSunis above thehorizonand it lights the sky.
      Synonyms:daylight,upsun;see alsoThesaurus:daytime
      Antonyms:night;see alsoThesaurus:nighttime
      dayand night;  I work at night and sleep during theday.
    2. A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-nightcycle.
      Synonym:nychthemeron
      I've been here for twodaysand a bit.
      1. The time taken for the Sun to seem to be in the same place in the sky twice; asolar day.
      2. The time taken for the Earth to make a full rotation about itsaxiswith respect to the fixed stars; asidereal dayorstellar day.
    3. (informalormeteorology)A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.
      Your 8am forecast: The high for thedaywill be 30 and the low, before dawn, will be 10.
    4. A period of time between two set times which mark the beginning and the end of day in acalendar,such as frommidnightto the followingmidnightor(Judaism)fromnightfallto the followingnightfall.
      Synonyms:seeThesaurus:day
      Thedaybegins at midnight.
      Monday is the firstdayof the week in many countries of the world.
    5. (astronomy)The rotational period of a planet.
      Adayon Mars is slightly over 24 hours.
    6. The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
      I worked twodayslast week.
      • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln,chapter VII, inMr. Pratt’s Patients,New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:
        “[…]if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drillday,but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery.[…]”
    7. Anobservancelasting for a day, such as anannualholiday.
      ChristmasDay
      RemembranceDay
    9. A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing;age;time;era.
      Synonyms:era,epoch;see alsoThesaurus:era
      every dog has itsday;in thatday;back in theday;in thosedays
      • 1910,Emerson Hough,chapter I, inThe Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise,Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
        This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.[…]Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from adaywhen skin garments made the proper garb of men.
      • 1943November –1944February (date written; published1945August 17),George Orwell[pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair],Animal Farm[…],London:Secker & Warburg,publishedMay 1962,→OCLC:
        If they had no more food than they had had in Jones'sday,at least they did not have less.
      • 2011,Kat Martin,A Song for My Mother‎[200],Vanguard Press,→ISBN:
        In his senior year, he had run across an old '66 Chevy Super Sport headed for the junkyard, bought it for a song, and overhauled it with his dad's help, turning it into the big red muscle car it was back in itsday.
    10. A period ofcontentionof a day or less.
      Thedaybelonged to the Allies.
    11. A period ofconfusionof a day or more.
      The Axis was having adayin a dayze due to the Allies.

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    • Sranan Tongo:dei

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    Seeday/translations § Noun.

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    day(third-person singular simple presentdays,present participledaying,simple past and past participledayed)

    1. (rare,intransitive)Tospenda day (in a place).
      • 1885,Richard F. Burton,chapter XXIII, inThe Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night,volume I, The Burton Club, page233:
        I nighted anddayedin Damascus town[.]

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    Azerbaijani

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    FromCommon Turkic*dāy.

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    day(definite accusativedayı,pluraldaylar)

    1. colt,foal

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    Declension ofday
    singular plural
    nominative day
    		 daylar
    definite accusative dayı
    		 dayları
    dative daya
    		 daylara
    locative dayda
    		 daylarda
    ablative daydan
    		 daylardan
    definite genitive dayın
    		 dayların
    Possessive forms ofday
    nominative
    singular plural
    mənim(“my”) dayım daylarım
    sənin(“your”) dayın dayların
    onun(“his/her/its”) dayı dayları
    bizim(“our”) dayımız daylarımız
    sizin(“your”) dayınız daylarınız
    onların(“their”) dayıordayları dayları
    accusative
    singular plural
    mənim(“my”) dayımı daylarımı
    sənin(“your”) dayını daylarını
    onun(“his/her/its”) dayını daylarını
    bizim(“our”) dayımızı daylarımızı
    sizin(“your”) dayınızı daylarınızı
    onların(“their”) dayınıordaylarını daylarını
    dative
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    mənim(“my”) dayıma daylarıma
    sənin(“your”) dayına daylarına
    onun(“his/her/its”) dayına daylarına
    bizim(“our”) dayımıza daylarımıza
    sizin(“your”) dayınıza daylarınıza
    onların(“their”) dayınaordaylarına daylarına
    locative
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    mənim(“my”) dayımda daylarımda
    sənin(“your”) dayında daylarında
    onun(“his/her/its”) dayında daylarında
    bizim(“our”) dayımızda daylarımızda
    sizin(“your”) dayınızda daylarınızda
    onların(“their”) dayındaordaylarında daylarında
    ablative
    singular plural
    mənim(“my”) dayımdan daylarımdan
    sənin(“your”) dayından daylarından
    onun(“his/her/its”) dayından daylarından
    bizim(“our”) dayımızdan daylarımızdan
    sizin(“your”) dayınızdan daylarınızdan
    onların(“their”) dayındanordaylarından daylarından
    genitive
    singular plural
    mənim(“my”) dayımın daylarımın
    sənin(“your”) dayının daylarının
    onun(“his/her/its”) dayının daylarının
    bizim(“our”) dayımızın daylarımızın
    sizin(“your”) dayınızın daylarınızın
    onların(“their”) dayınınordaylarının daylarının

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    • →Lezgi:тай(taj)(or < Kumyk)

    References

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    • Clauson, Gerard(1972) “ta:y”, inAn Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish,Oxford: Clarendon Press

    Further reading

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    • “day”inObastan.com.

    Cebuano

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    Clippingofinday.

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    day

    1. (colloquial)a familiar address to a girl
    2. a familiar address to adaughter

    Hawaiian Creole

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    FromEnglishday.

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    day

    1. day

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    day

    1. Iam

    Middle English

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    InheritedfromOld Englishdæġ,fromProto-West Germanic*dag.

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    day(pluraldayesordaysordawes)

    1. day(composed of 24 hours)
    2. day(as opposed to night)
      • a.1382,John Wycliffe, “Genesis 1:5”,inWycliffe's Bible:
        and he clepide the liȝt,dai,and the derkneſſis, nyȝt. And the euentid and morwetid was maad, odaie.
        And he called light "day"and the darkness" night ". And the evening and morning was made; oneday.
    3. daylight,sunlight
    4. epoch,age,period
    5. a certain day
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    day

    1. Alternative form ofþei(“they”)

    Scots

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    InheritedfromMiddle Englishday.

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    day(pluraldays)

    1. day
    2. (in the definite singular)today
      A'm sorry, A've no seen Angusthe day.
      I'm sorry, I haven't seen Angustoday.

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    day(Baybayin spellingᜇᜌ᜔)

    1. Alternative spelling of'day

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    day

    1. torub
      • 2016,chapter 2, in Nguyễn Đức Vịnh, transl.,Đừng nói chuyện với cô ấy,part I, NXB Phụ Nữ, translation ofBiệt hòa tha thuyết thoạiby Yù Jǐn (Ngộ Cẩn):
        Tôi đặt bút xuống, khẽ liếm môi, lại đưa taydaymắt, cảm thấy mình như vừa tỉnh mộng.
        I put down my pen, gently licked my lips, and lifted my hand to againrubmy eyes, feeling as if I had just woken up from a dream.
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