aín dídine

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• oín dídine

Etymology

From aín +‎ díden, literally "the last fasting".

Noun

aín dídine f (genitive aíne dídine)

1. Friday
   • 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. 113^c1

     día oíne dídine

     [on] Friday ― glosses Latin in die ante sabatum (“on the day before Saturday”))

Usage notes

Often found following día (“day”). Dídine may also be dropped, leaving just aín or aíne.

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
aíne dídine (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-aíne dídine
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

See also

• (days of the week) láe sechtmaine; domnach,‎ lúan,‎ Máirt,‎ cétaín,‎ dardaín,‎ aín dídine,‎ Satharn ^{(Category: sga:Days of the week) [edit]}

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 díden”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language