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It served also, as Cotgrave notes, to enforce an affirmation, as in Ouy dea , dis je; Yes, forsooth, say I.
But as this interpretation was not at all obvious, or was forgotten, the familiarity of many Englishmen with the Span. Dios and the Ital. Dio may really have suggested a new interpretation in the eighteenth century; indeed, even Cotgrave seems to have had such a notion.
We notice that Cotgrave writes it with a circumflex over the a , as if it were a contracted form.
Cotgrave has:— Deâ , an interjection, as Dâ, ouy de^ [the circumflex over the a is not mine, but Cotgrave's], yes, truly, verily, without doubt also, a tearme of expostulation [note this]; as deâ, qui vous mouvoit ?
I now venture to quote some remarkable words from Cotgrave's well-known Dictionary, and from the Old French Dictionary by Godefroy.