dóú

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dou"

Irish

Alternative forms

• dómhadh (superseded)

Etymology

Irish numbers ^(edit)

	20
[a], [b] ←  1	2	3  →
Cardinal: dó     Ordinal: dara, dóú     Personal: beirt, dís     Attributive: dhá

dó +‎ -ú

Adjective

dóú (abbreviated 2ú)

1. second (ordinal number of 2)

   an dóú fear déag ― the twelfth man

   an dóú lá is fiche ― the twenty-second day

Usage notes

• Used only with compound numbers ending in 2 (12, 22, etc.). The word for ‘second’ is otherwise dara.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
dóú	dhóú	ndóú
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “dóṁaḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 255
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dóú”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN