dau

dau

1. (genealogy) Abbreviation of daughter. (often with implied 'of')

   Jane, dau John

• AUD, Adu, Au.D., Dua, UDA, aud., du'a', dua

dau

1. leaf

• George W. Grace, Notes on the phonological history of the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi Coast, in Oceanic Linguistics (1971, 10:11-37)

From Latin dō. Compare Daco-Romanian da, dau.

dau (third-person singular present indicative da, past participle datã)

1. I give.

dau

1. leaf

• George W. Grace, Notes on the phonological history of the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi Coast, in Oceanic Linguistics (1971, 10:11-37)

From a Vulgar Latin *dadu, of uncertain origin; perhaps of Arabic origin, cf. أَعْدَاد‎ (ʾaʿdād), or alternatively from Latin datum, from datus (“given”), the past participle of dare (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to lay out, to spread out”). Compare French dé, Italian dado, Spanish and Portuguese dado.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈdaw/
• Rhymes: -aw

dau m (plural daus)

1. die (polyhedron with symbols on each side)

Compare Tagalog dao.

dau

1. dao (Dracontomelon dao).

dau

1. year

   dau kalangngana ― last year

   dau ta aro ― next year

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

From Old Norse dauðr

dau (masculine and feminine dau, neuter daut, definite singular and plural daue)

1. (dialectal) dead

• daud, død

• “dau” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “dau” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• dal, del, deu

dau

1. Contraction of de + lo

• IPA^(key): [ˈdau]

dau

1. first-person singular present indicative of da
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of da
3. third-person plural present indicative of da

dau

1. leaf

• George W. Grace, Notes on the phonological history of the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi Coast, in Oceanic Linguistics (1971, 10:11-37)

dau

1. (Cire-Cire) ash

dau

1. (Cire-Cire) to burn

• Pavol Štekauer, Salvador Valera, Lívia Kőrtvélyessy, Word-Formation in the World's Languages: A Typological Survey (2012)

From Proto-Brythonic *dọw, from Proto-Celtic *dwau, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /daɨ̯/
• (South Wales) (standard) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /dai̯/
  • (South Wales) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /dɔi̯/

dau m (feminine form dwy, triggers soft mutation)

1. two