dá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "da"

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdaː]

Verb

dá

1. third-person singular present indicative of dát

Dakota

Verb

dá

1. ask for, request, demand

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈda/ [ˈd̪a]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: dá

Verb

dá

1. inflection of dar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tauː/
• Rhymes: -auː

Etymology 1

From Old Norse dá (“trance, senseless state”), from Proto-Germanic *dawą (“trance”), a nominal formation related to Etymology 2.

Noun

dá n (genitive singular dás, no plural)

1. coma

   Synonyms: dauðadá n, svefndá n

Declension

Declension of dá (sg-only neuter)

	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	dá	dáið
accusative	dá	dáið
dative	dái	dáinu
genitive	dás	dásins

Derived terms

• liggja í dái (“to be in a coma”, literally “to lie in a coma”)
• falla í dá (“to fall into a coma”)

See also

• stjarfi
• svefnhöfgi

Etymology 2

From Old Norse dá (“to admire”), from Proto-Germanic *dawāną (“to marvel”).

Verb

dá (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative dáði, supine dáð)

1. to adore, admire greatly
2. to worship

   Synonym: dýrka

   Ég dái þig.

   I worship you.

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɑː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠaː/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish dïa (“if, when”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic nan (“if, whether”).

Conjunction

dá (triggers eclipsis of a following consonant and takes the dependent form of irregular verbs)

1. if

   Dá gcuirfeann sé fearthainne anois, d’osclófainn mo scáth fearthainne.

   If it were raining now, I would open my umbrella.

   Dá dtéiteá ar an aonach, b’fhéidir leat gamhain a dhíol.

   If you had gone to the market, you could have sold a calf.

2. when (relative, with past tenses)

   lá dá raibh sé ann

   one day when he was there

Usage notes

• Used in counterfactual conditionals with the conditional or past subjunctive.
• In the meaning ‘when’ used virtually only in the past tense after the word lá (“day”), in Early Modern Irish also with feacht (“time, occasion”); in other contexts, especially at the head of sentence, nuair or an tan is used instead.

Alternative forms

• dhá

See also

• má (“if”) (in factual conditionals)
• mura (“unless; if...not”)

Etymology 2

Contraction

dá

1. Contraction of do + a (various meanings)

   ‘to his, to its’ (triggers lenition)

   ‘to her, to its’ (triggers h-prothesis)

   2015 [2014], Will Collins, translated by Proinsias Mac a' Bhaird, edited by Maura McHugh, Amhrán na Mara (fiction; paperback), Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Howth, Dublin: Cartoon Saloon; Coiscéim, translation of Song of the Sea (in English), →ISBN, page 1:

   Thuas i dteach an tsolais, faoi réaltaí geala, canann Bronach Amhrán na Mara dá mac Ben atá cúig bliana d'aois.

   [original: Up in the lighthouse, under twinkling stars, Bronach sings the Song of the Sea to her five-year-old son, Ben.]

   ‘to their’ (triggers eclipsis)

   ‘to which’ (triggers eclipsis, takes the dependent form of irregular verbs)

2. Contraction of de + a (various meanings)

   ‘from his, from its’ (triggers lenition)

   ‘from her, from its’ (triggers h-prothesis)

   ‘from their’ (triggers eclipsis)

   ‘from which’ (triggers eclipsis, takes the dependent form of irregular verbs)

3. used with an abstract noun (which undergoes lenition) to denote a degree, equivalent to English however (“to whatever extent or degree”)

   dá fhad an bhóthar ― however long the road (literally, “from its length the road”)

4. used with an abstract noun (which undergoes lenition) followed by is ea is or just is to form the equivalent of English the... the...

   dá luaithe (is ea) is fearr ― the sooner the better (literally, “from its earliness the better”)

Alternative forms

• dhá

Related terms

Irish preposition contractions

Basic form	Contracted with							Copular forms
	an (“the sg”)	na (“the pl”)	mo (“my”)	do (“your”)	a (“his, her, their; which (present)”)	ár (“our”)	ar (“which (past)”)	(before consonant)	(present/future before vowel)	(past/conditional before vowel)
de (“from”)	den	de na desna*	de mo dem*	de do ded*, det*	dá	dár		dar	darb	darbh
do (“to, for”)	don	do na dosna*	do mo dom*	do do dod*, dot*	dá	dár		dar	darb	darbh
faoi (“under, about”)	faoin	faoi na	faoi mo	faoi do	faoina	faoinár	faoinar		faoinarb	faoinarbh
i (“in”)	sa, san	sna	i mo im*	i do id*, it*	ina	inár	inar		inarb	inarbh
le (“with”)	leis an	leis na	le mo lem*	le do led*, let*	lena	lenár	lenar		lenarb	lenarbh
ó (“from, since”)	ón	ó na ósna*	ó mo óm*	ó do ód*, ót*	óna	ónár	ónar		ónarb	ónarbh
trí (“through”)	tríd an	trí na	trí mo	trí do	trína	trínár	trínar		trínarb	trínarbh
*Dialectal.

Etymology 3

Numeral

dá

1. Alternative form of dhá (“two”) (used after an, aon, and chéad (“first”)).
   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 66:

     ńīr l̄auŕ šē lm̥ əŕ fȧ n dā l̄ā.

     [Níor labhair sé liom ar feadh an dá lá.]

     He didn’t talk to me for two days.

Mandarin

Alternative forms

• da — nonstandard

Romanization

dá (da², Zhuyin ㄉㄚˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 羍
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 荅
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 劄
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 匒
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 呾
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 妲
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 怛
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 打
9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 沓
10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 溚
11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 炟
12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 畗
13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 畣
14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瘨
15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 笪
16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 答
17. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 箒 / 帚
18. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 繨 / 𫄤
19. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 羆 / 罴
20. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 胃
21. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 荄
22. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 荙
23. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 薘 / 荙
24. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蟽
25. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 褟
26. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 詚
27. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 达
28. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 迖
29. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 逹, 達 / 达
30. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鄽
31. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 酃
32. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鐽 / 𫟼
33. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 靼
34. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 韃 / 鞑
35. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瘩

Northern Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈtaː/

Adverb

dá

1. here

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• da

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *duwo, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daː/

Numeral

Old Irish cardinal numbers

<  1	2	3  >
Cardinal : dá     Ordinal : tánaise

dá (governing a noun like a determiner)

1. two
   • 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. 67^d14

     Amal rund·gab slíab Sión andes ⁊ antúaid du⟨n⟩ chath⟨raig⟩ dïa dítin, sic rund·gabsat ar ṅdá thoíb du dítin ar n-inmedónach-ni.

     As Mount Sion is located on the south and the north of the city to protect it, so are our two sides there to protect our insides.

   • c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 110c

     Ba bés leusom do·bertis dá boc leu dochum tempuil, ⁊ no·léicthe indala n‑ái fon díthrub co pecad in popuil, ⁊ do·bertis maldachta foir, ⁊ n⟨o⟩·oircthe didiu and ó popul tar cenn a pecthae ind aile.

     It was a custom with them that two he-goats were brought by them to the temple, and one of the two of them was let go to the wilderness with the sin of the people, and curses were put upon him, and thereupon the other was slain there by the people for their sins.

Declension

Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative Accusative	dáL	díL	dáN
Genitive	dáL		dáN
Dative	dibN
L = Triggers lenition N = Triggers nasalization (eclipsis)

Synonyms

• dáu (used pronominally)

Descendants

• Irish: dhá, dá, a dó
• Manx: daa
• Scottish Gaelic: dà, dhà

Mutation

Mutation of dá

radical	lenition	nasalization
dá	dá pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndá

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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

Pite Sami

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaː/

Pronoun

dá

1. these

Declension

Inflection of dá

	singular	plural
nominative	dát	dá, dáh
genitive	dán	dáj
accusative	dáv	dájt
illative	dása	dájda
inessive	dán	dájtne
elative	dásste	dájste
comitative	dájna	dáj

See also

Pite Sami demonstrative pronouns

	singular	plural
proximal	dát	dá
distal	dat	da
remote	dut	du

References

• Joshua Wilbur (2014) A grammar of Pite Saami, Berlin: Language Science Press, page 115

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• da (obsolete)
• dah (Brazil, Internet slang)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dá, from Latin dat.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈda/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈda/

• Rhymes: -a
• Homophone: dar (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: dá

Verb

dá

1. inflection of dar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. Apocopic form of dar; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las
3. Eye dialect spelling of dar, representing Brazil Portuguese.