[dēʃ], m. a country, nation, land, region, space.
[←OIA dēśá- m. ‘point, region, part’ VS., ‘province, country’ R. <√diś ‘show’ ◀PIE *deik̂- ‘to show, point out’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. teach, token, toe ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. digit, dictate, diction, disk ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 0557; (Turner, 1966) 6547, p.363; (MW, 1899) 0496, 0479; (Pokorny, 1959) 0188; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 1.744
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