dayee

== English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Alternative forms ==== day-ee ==== Noun ==== dayee (uncountable) Pronunciation spelling of day. ==== Interjection ==== dayee (Australia, dated) An ellipsis of good day. ===== Synonyms ===== g'day === Etymology 2 === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) ==== Noun ==== dayee (plural dayees) (rare, India) midwife 1855, North-Western Provinces, India, Selections from the Records of Government, Volume 3, page 184, The custom now actually and thoroughly established, and daily practised in these villages, is the following : — On the occasion of a birth in a Thakoor family, the village dayee is summoned, and after her services have been completed, she reports the occurrence to her relative, the bullahur ; he informs the chowkeedar, who causes the necessary entry to be made in the putwaree′s diary, and, if the birth be of a girl, reports the event to the thannah.