dere

From Middle English dere, from Old English dæru, daru (“injury, hurt, harm, damage, calamity; loss, deprivation”), from Proto-West Germanic *daru, from Proto-Germanic *darō (“damage, injury”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰórh₃-eh₂, from *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”).

Cognate with Middle Dutch dare, dere, Low German dere, Old High German tara, Avestan 𐬛𐬁𐬭𐬁 (dārā), Sanskrit धारा (dhā́rā).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪə/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
• Homophones: dear, deer

dere (plural deres)

1. (obsolete, dialectal) Hurt; harm; injury.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:injury

   She did him dere.

From Middle English deren, from Old English derian (“to damage, injure, hurt, harm”), from Proto-West Germanic *darjan (“to injure, harm”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dera (“to injure, damage”), West Frisian deare, derre (“to harm, injure”), Dutch deren (“to injure, damage, scathe”), Middle High German tern (“to injure”). Related to dart.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪə/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
• Homophones: dear, deer

dere (third-person singular simple present deres, present participle dering, simple past and past participle dered)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To hurt; harm; injure; wound.

   Synonyms: damage, scathe; see also Thesaurus:harm, Thesaurus:hurt

2. (transitive, obsolete) To annoy, trouble, grieve.

• dering

Nonstandard spelling of there, reflecting any of a variety of accents with th-stopping.

• der

• (African-American Vernacular, New York City) IPA^(key): /dɛː(ɹ)/
• (Ulster English) IPA^(key): /d̪ɛː(ɹ)/
• (Midlands) IPA^(key): /d̪ɛə(ɹ)/
• (rural areas of Scotland, rare) IPA^(key): /d̪iəɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɛː(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophone: dare (some accents)

dere (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

dere

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

dere (uncountable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

dere

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

• Eder, Rede, Reed, deer, dree, rede, reed

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɛrɛ]

dere

1. third-person singular present of drát

• Rhymes: -eːrə

dere

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of deren

dere

1. Rōmaji transcription of デレ

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdeː.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdɛː.re]

dēre

1. second-person singular present passive subjunctive of dō

From Old English dīere, from Proto-West Germanic *diurī, from Proto-Germanic *diurijaz.

• deere, deore

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeːr(ə)/

dere

1. dear

• English: dear
• Scots: dere, deir
• Yola: dear

• “dẹ̄re, adj.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Either a back-formation from deren (“to harm”) or a modification of Old English daru with assimilation of the vowel to that verb.

• der
• deere, deire, derre (Late Middle English)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛ̞ːr(ə)/

dere (plural deres)

1. A harm or damage; something harmful:
   1. An injury or wound; a physical harm.
   2. A misdeed or infliction.
2. An obstacle or challenge.

• English: dere (obsolete)
• Middle Scots: dere, deir
  • Scots: deare, dere (obsolete)

• “dēre, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

dere

1. (Northern or Late Middle English) alternative form of der (“deer”)

dere

1. alternative form of deren

Principally from eastern dialectal Norwegian der, dere, object form of de (/di, de/, “you”). This latter is from Middle Norwegian ther, *thi, from Old Norse þér, *þīʀ, þit, themselves from ér, īʀ, it (see these) with initial þ- by rebracketing of the conjugational suffix -ið of preceding verbs. By analogy, the same onset was given to the object form yðr, iðr, yielding *þyðr, *þiðr, whence the before-mentioned der(e), also dør(e). Generalization of the object form of plural pronouns is found in various Norwegian dialects.

At the same time, interaction with the third-person plural forms is likely, particularly under influence of Dano-Norwegian de (“they”), deres (“their”), which were also used as polite second-person pronouns (see De). In the Dano-Norwegian vernacular, the form dere may have established itself in part by backformation from Deres (“your”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeːrə/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -eːrə

dere (objective case dere)

1. (personal) you (second-person plural subject and object pronoun)

   Synonyms: (highly archaic) I, eder

From Middle Norwegian *þiðr, whence also der. Borrowed from Old East Norse iðʀ with added þ-, similar to þit from hafið it.

• IPA^(key): /²deːɾə/, /ˈdeːɾə/

dere

1. (dialectal, South East Norway) objective case of de; alternative form of dykk (“you (plural)”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈde.re/
• Rhymes: -e.re

dere

1. singular imperative of derian

dere (Cyrillic spelling дере)

1. third-person singular present of derati

dere

1. third-person singular present of dreti

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دره (dere), from Classical Persian دَرَه (dara, “valley, crack”).

• IPA^(key): /deˈɾe/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: de‧re

dere (definite accusative dereyi, plural dereler)

1. creek, small river

   Coordinate terms: çay, akarsu, nehir, ırmak

2. glen, basin, ravine (a long area of relatively low elevation, often having a stream bed at the bottom, surrounded by mountains or hills, usually smaller than a valley)

• “dere”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “dere”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “dere”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

• tyrd (North Wales)
• tyred (North Wales, literary)

• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛrɛ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈdeːrɛ/, /ˈdɛrɛ/

dere

1. (South Wales) second-person singular imperative of dod

From Persian دره (darre).

dere

1. valley