Wiktionary

dá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "da"

Czech edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

dá

  1. third-person singular present indicative of dát

Dakota edit

Verb edit

dá

  1. ask for, request, demand

Galician edit

Verb edit

dá

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

Icelandic edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

dá n (genitive singular dás, no plural)

  1. coma

Declension edit

declension of dá
n-s singular
indefinite definite
nominative dá dáið
accusative dá dáið
dative dái dáinu
genitive dás dásins

Synonyms edit

Derived terms edit

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Verb edit

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

  1. to adore, admire greatly
  2. to worship
    Ég dái þig.
    I worship you.

Conjugation edit

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms edit

Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Irish dïa (“if, when”).[3] Cognate with Scottish Gaelic nan (“if, whether”).

Conjunction edit

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

Etymology 2 edit

Contraction edit

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 edit
Related terms edit
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 edit

Numeral edit

dá

  1. Alternative form of dhá (“two”) (used after an, aon, and chéad (“first”)).
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, 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.

References edit

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 64
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 66
  3. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 día n-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Lashi edit

Etymology edit

Cognate to Chinese 的.

Pronunciation edit

Postposition edit

dá

  1. Used after an attribute. Indicates that the previous word has possession of the next one. It functions like ’s in English (or like the word “of” but with the position of possessor and possessee switched). ’s; of

References edit

  • Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Mandarin edit

Alternative forms edit

  • da — nonstandard

Romanization edit

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 edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈtaː/

Adverb edit

dá

  1. here

Further reading edit

  • Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Old Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

Old Irish cardinal numbers
 <  1 2 3  > 
    Cardinal : dá
    Ordinal : tánaise

dá (governing a noun like a determiner)

  1. two
    • 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 edit

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

Synonyms edit

  • dáu (used pronominally)

Descendants edit

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

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
dá dá
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ 		ndá
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

Pite Sami edit

Pronunciation edit

Pronoun edit

dá

  1. these

Declension edit

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 edit

Pite Sami demonstrative pronouns
singular plural
Proximal dát dá
Distal dat da
Remote dut du

References edit

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

Portuguese edit

Alternative forms edit

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

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

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.
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