dóenacht

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• doínacht

Etymology

From doíni (plural of duine (“person”)) +‎ -acht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoːi̯naxt/

Noun

dóenacht f (genitive dóenachtae, no plural)

1. humanity
   • 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. 25^c5

     Foillsigthir as n‑ísel in doínacht íar n‑aicniud húare as in deacht foda·raithmine⟨dar⟩ ⁊ noda·fortachtaigedar.

     It is made clear that the humanity is lowly according to nature because it is the Godhead that remembers it and helps it

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	dóenachtL	—	—
Vocative	dóenachtL	—	—
Accusative	dóenachtN	—	—
Genitive	dóenachtaeH	—	—
Dative	dóenachtL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• Middle Irish: der1

Mutation

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

Further reading

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