dye
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From Middle English deie, from Old English dēah, dēag (“color, hue, dye”), from Proto-West Germanic *daugu (“colour, shade”), from *daugan (“to conceal, be dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust, camouflage”).
Cognate with Old High German tougan (“dark, secretive”), tougal (“dark, hidden, covert”), Old English dēagol, dīegle (“dark, hidden, secret”), Old English dohs, dox (“dusky, dark”). See dusk.
The verb is from Middle English deien, from Old English dēagian, from the noun.
dye (countable and uncountable, plural dyes)
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dye (third-person singular simple present dyes, present participle dyeing, simple past and past participle dyed)
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dye (plural dyce)
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