Deenees

== Yola == === Etymology === From Middle English Denis, from Old French Denis. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /dɛːˈniːs/ === Proper noun === Deenees a male given name, equivalent to English Dennis ==== Usage notes ==== Yola has two types of ee, hard /iː/ as in keéne and soft /ɛː/ as in eêth. === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 33