דִירֵי

Judeo-Italian

Etymology

From a contraction of Classical Latin dīcere, from Proto-Italic *deikō, from Proto-Indo-European *déyḱti (“to show, point out”), athematic root present of *deyḱ- (“to show”).

Verb

דִירֵי (dire)

1. (transitive) to say
   • 16^th century [750–450 BCE], “לוּ לִיבֵירוֹ דֵי יִרְמִיַהוּ [Lu libero de Jirmiau, The Book of Jeremiah]”, in נְבִיאִים [Neviim, Prophets]‎^[1] (manuscript), translation of נְבִיאִים [Nəvīʾīm, Prophets] (in Biblical Hebrew), chapter 7, verse 2, leaf 1, lines 10–12:

     נוּן סְפֵירִיטִי אַה ווּאִי אַה פַארַאוֵילִי דֵי פַֿאלְצִיטַאדֵי אַה דִירֵי טֵינְפֵילוֹ דֵי דוּמֵידֵית טֵינְפֵירלוֹ דֵי דוּמֵידֵית טֵינְפֵילוֹ דֵי דוּמֵידֵית אֵיסִי׃ (Judeo-Roman)

     nun səperiṭi ʔah wuʔi ʔah paʔraʔweli de faʔləṣiṭaʔde ʔah dire ṭenəpelo de dumedeṯ ṭenəpelo de dumedeṯ ṭenəpelo de dumedeṯ ʔesi.

     /Nun speriti a vui a paraveli de falzitade a dire: Tenpelo de Dumedeo! Tenpelo de Dumedeo! Tenpelo de Dumedeo essi!/

     Do not trust yourselves to words of falsehood saying: 'The temple of the Lord! The temple of the Lord! The temple of the Lord [are] they!

Conjugation

• Past historic: דִיסֵי (dise /⁠disse⁠/, 3^rd-person singular), דִיסֵירוֹ (disero /⁠dissero⁠/, 3^rd-person plural)
• Future: דִירַאיִי (diraʔyi /⁠diraji⁠/, 2^nd-person singular), דִירִיטִי (diriṭi /⁠diriti⁠/, 2^nd-person plural)

Related terms

• דִיטוֹ (diṭo /⁠ditto⁠/)