From Old Irish dardaín,[1] from etar dá aín (“between two fasts”).
Déardaoin m or f (genitive singular Déardaoin or Déardaoine or Déardaoineach)
- Thursday
- Alternative declension
Déardaoin
- on Thursday
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dardóin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 80
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 404, page 134
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Déardaoin”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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- “Déardaoin”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024