damán allaid

Old Irish edit

FWOTD – 24 January 2024

From damán (“calf, fawn”) +‎ allaid (“wild”).

damán allaid m (genitive damáin allaid)

spider
- 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. 59^d1
  inna ndamán n-allaid [translating aranearum]
  of the spiders

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	damán allaid	damán altai	damáin altai
Vocative	damáin allaid	damán altai	damánu altai
Accusative	damán n-allaid	damán altai	damánu altai
Genitive	damáin allaid	damán allaid	damán n-allaid
Dative	damán allaid	damánaib altaib	damánaib altaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

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