See day in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"Middle English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
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28
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100
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97,
101
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24
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"english": "And he called light \"day\" and the darkness \"night\". And the evening and morning was made; one day.",
"ref": "a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Genesis 1:5”, in Wycliffe's Bible:",
"text": "and he clepide the liȝt, dai, and the derkneſſis, nyȝt. And the euentid and morwetid was maad, o daie.",
"translation": "And he called light \"day\" and the darkness \"night\". And the evening and morning was made; one day.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"glosses": [
"Daytime; day as opposed to night."
],
"links": [
[
"Daytime",
"daytime"
],
[
"day",
"day#English"
],
[
"night",
"night"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"An epoch, age, or period."
],
"links": [
[
"epoch",
"epoch"
],
[
"age",
"age"
],
[
"period",
"period"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"An particular day or period."
],
"links": [
[
"particular",
"particular"
],
[
"day",
"day#English"
],
[
"period",
"period"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Daylight, sunlight; the light of day."
],
"links": [
[
"Daylight",
"daylight"
],
[
"sunlight",
"sunlight"
],
[
"light",
"light"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"enm:Architecture"
],
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"A section of a window split into mullions."
],
"links": [
[
"architecture",
"architecture"
],
[
"section",
"section"
],
[
"window",
"window"
],
[
"mullion",
"mullion"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(architecture) A section of a window split into mullions."
],
"topics": [
"architecture"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/dæi̯/"
},
{
"ipa": "/daj/"
},
{
"ipa": "/dɛj/",
"tags": [
"Early-Middle-English"
]
}
],
"word": "day"
}
{
"categories": [
"Middle English alternative forms",
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Pages with 10 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"enm:Time",
"enm:Units of time"
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"2": "pronoun",
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"name": "head"
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],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "pron",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "they",
"word": "þei"
}
],
"glosses": [
"alternative form of þei (“they”)"
],
"links": [
[
"þei",
"þei#Middle_English:_they"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "day"
}
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"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: '(nominative/accusative)'",
"path": [
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"section": "Middle English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "day",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (6fdc867 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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