D-dag

From English D-Day, where the D refers to the word dag (“day”), from Old Norse dagr (“day”), from Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, to be illuminated”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeːdɑːɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːɡ
• Hyphenation: D‧dag
• Homophone: DD

D-dag m (definite singular D-dagen, indefinite plural D-dager, definite plural D-dagene)

1. (figurative, military) D-Day (The date of any major (often military) event planned for the future)

   D-dag er et militært uttrykk som kan spores tilbake til første verdenskrig.

   D-Day is a military expression which can be traced back to World War I.

• D-dagen (“D-day”)
• klokken H (“H-hour”)

• “D-dag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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