dardaín

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• tardaín (Críth Gablach)

Etymology

A contraction of a phrase eter dá aín "between two fasts"; Thursday is between Wednesday and Friday, which were designated fasting days.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdar.dai̯nʲ/

Noun

dardaín f

1. Thursday
   • Trecheng Breth Féne, published in The Triads of Ireland (1906, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, §217

     Trí ferláe: .i. dardaín, aíne, domnach.

     Three man-days, i.e. Thursday, Friday, and Sunday.

Inflection

Due to the word's origin as a prepositional phrase, it is indeclinable.

Descendants

• Middle Irish: dardoín
  • Irish: Déardaoin (reformed with dé (“day”))

Mutation

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

See also

• (days of the week) láe sechtmaine; domnach,‎ lúan,‎ Máirt,‎ cétaín,‎ dardaín,‎ aín dídine,‎ Satharn ^{(Category: sga:Days of the week) [edit]}

Further reading

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