damán allaid
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Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From damán (“calf, fawn”) + allaid (“wild”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]damán allaid m (genitive damáin allaid)
- spider
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 59d1
- inna ndamán n-allaid [translating aranearum]
- of the spiders
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 59d1
Inflection
[edit]Masculine o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | damán allaid | damán altai | damáin altai |
Vocative | damáin allaid | damán altai | damánu altai |
Accusative | damán n-allaid | damán altai | damánu altai |
Genitive | damáin allaid | damán allaid | damán n-allaid |
Dative | damán allaid | damánaib altaib | damánaib altaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
[edit]- Irish: damhán alla
- Manx: doo-oallee
- Scottish Gaelic: damhan-allaidh
Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
damán allaid | damán allaid pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ |
ndamán allaid |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “damán allaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language