Dayes vs Dayee - What's the difference?
dayes | dayee |
(Australia, dated) An ellipsis of good day.
* 1955 , , Cake in the Hat Box ,
(rare, India) midwife
* 1855 , North-Western Provinces, India, Selections from the Records of Government , Volume 3,
As nouns the difference between dayes and dayee
is that dayes is plural of lang=en while dayee is eye dialect of lang=en.As an interjection dayee is
An ellipsis of good day.dayee
English
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
* day-eeNoun
(-)Interjection
(en interjection)page 4,
- “Good day ?Un!” he said to the yardman.
- “Day-ee', Jasper!” replied 'Un. “' Day-ee , Silas! How?s things?”
Synonyms
* g'dayEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)page 184,
- The custom now actually and thoroughly established, and daily practised in these villages, is the following : — On the occasion of a birth in a Thakoor family, the village dayee is summoned, and after her services have been completed, she reports the occurrence to her relative, the bullahur ; he informs the chowkeedar, who causes the necessary entry to be made in the putwaree?s diary, and, if the birth be of a girl, reports the event to the thannah.