deep – English noun declension

English noun forms of deep

Noun: deep
Singulardeep
Pluraldeeps

Sample Sentences

  • creatures of the deep
  • How few! yet how they creep / Through my fingers to the deep, / While I weep—while I weep! / O God! can I not grasp / Them with a tighter clasp? [1849 March 31, Edgar Allan Poe, “A Dream Within a Dream”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: […], volumes II (Poems and Miscellanies), New York, N.Y.: J. S. Redfield, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 40:]
  • Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. [Psalm 42 verse 7]
  • And what delights can equal those
  • ⁠That stir the spirit’s inner deeps,
  • ⁠When one that loves but knows not, reaps
  • A truth from one that loves and knows? [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 64:]
  • the deep of night
  • For our blues we have the azures and ceruleans, lapis lazulis, the light and dusty, the powder blues, the deeps: royal, sapphire, navy, and marine […] [2014, William H. Gass, On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry, page 59:]
  • Russell is a safe pair of hands in the deep.
  • Coordinate term: shallow

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *deupaz
4. Proto-West Germanic *deup
5. Old English dēop
6. Middle English dep
7. English deep
8. From Middle English dep, deep, depe, from Old English dēop (“deep, profound; awful, mysterious; heinous; serious, solemn, earnest; extreme, great”), from Proto-West Germanic *deup, from Proto-Germanic *deupaz (“deep”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“deep”).
9. Cognates
10. Cognate with Scots depe (“deep”), North Frisian diip, jip (“deep”), Saterland Frisian djoop (“deep”), West Frisian djip (“deep”), Dutch diep (“deep”), Low German deep (“deep”), Luxembourgish déif (“deep”), Central Franconian deep, deef (“deep”), German tief (“deep”), Alemannic German tüüf (“deep”), Mòcheno tiaf (“deep”), Vilamovian tif, tīf, tiif (“deep”), Yiddish טיף (tif, “deep”), Danish dyb (“deep”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish djup (“deep”), Scanian djyber (“deep”), Norwegian Bokmål djup, dyp (“deep”), Faroese and Icelandic djúpur (“deep”), Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍀𐍃 (diups, “deep”), Lithuanian dubùs (“deep, hollow”), Albanian det (“sea”), Welsh dwfn (“deep”). See: Dutch Nouns 'diep', German Nouns 'tief', Danish Nouns 'dyb', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'djup'.

Verbs referencing "deep"

Czech Nouns dno, Dutch Nouns diep, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns djup, Ancient Greek Nouns βυθός.