daas

See also: Daas and DaaS

Dutch

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /daːs/
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  • Hyphenation: daas
  • Rhymes: -aːs

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch daes, likely a doublet of dwaas.

Adjective

daas (comparative dazer, superlative meest daas or daast)

  1. foolish, dull, silly
Inflection
Inflection of daas
uninflected daas
inflected daze
comparative dazer
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial daasdazerhet daast
het daaste
indefinite m./f. sing. dazedazeredaaste
n. sing. daasdazerdaaste
plural dazedazeredaaste
definite dazedazeredaaste
partitive daasdazers—
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch dauese, probably from the adjectival sense (see Etymology 1). A direct descending from Proto-West Germanic *dawas, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰowos- (“botfly”), has also been proposed (Goossens 1985).

Noun

daas m (plural dazen, diminutive daasje n)

  1. horse-fly, blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae
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