Did you know that the singular form of 'Dice' is 'Die'. The word 'Die' in the sense of 'dying', 'ceasing to live', 'expiring', 'biting the dust', 'swimming with the fishes', you get the point, is possibly derived from the Old Danish 'doja', or Old Norse 'deyja' meaning, you guessed, 'to die', 'pass away'. How did 'die' come to mean 'Dice' as in "let's play some dice . . . wait, you cheated . . . I'm going to kill you dead you bastard", nobody really knows. Some speculate it is derived from the Latin 'datum' meaning 'given', thus implying 'what is given by chance or Fortune'. 'Datum' also had a secondary meaning of 'to play', which makes slightly more sense.