दै

From Proto-Bodo-Garo *tɯi¹ (“water”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-t(w)əj-n ~ m-ti-s (“water; fluid; liquid; river; to soak; to spit”). Cognate with Dimasa di, Kokborok twi, Rabha চিকা, Garo ci, Tiwa ti, Deori জি, Mising আচি (asi), Mizo tui, Manipuri ꯏꯁꯤꯡ (ising).

• IPA^(key): /dɯi/

दै (dôi) (Latin script dwi)

1. water

• दई (daī)

Inherited from Old Hindi दही (dahī), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑀳𑀺 (dahi) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-), from Sanskrit दधि (dádhi). Doublet of दद (dad) and दध (dadh).

दै (dai) m

1. curd, yogurt

• रमेश गुप्त [Ramesh Gupt] (2011) “दै”, in श्रीराम तिवारी [Shriram Tiwari], अशोक मिश्र [Ashok Mishra], editors, बुन्देली - हिन्दी शब्दकोश [Bundeli - Hindi Dictionary] (in Hindi), शिवाजी नगर, भोपाल [Shivaji Nagar, Bhopal]: संस्कृति संचालनालय, माध्यमिक शिक्षा मण्डल परिसर [Sanskriti Sanchalanalaya, Madhyamik Shiksha Mandal Parisar], →ISBN, दे/दै, page 150, column 2.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dádhi”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 351

• दा (dā)

Probably from a semantic extension of the root दा (dā, “to divide”) via a prefix such as वि- (vi-) or अव- (ava-).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /dɑːj/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑj/

दै • (dai)

1. to purify, cleanse

• Monier Williams (1899) “दै”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 497/1.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 72
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 718; 747