dodcadchae
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
dodcadach (“unfortunate”) + -e; the former from dodcad (“bad luck”) + -ach; the former from do- + tocad (“luck, fortune”), from Proto-Celtic *tonketos (compare Welsh tynged), from Proto-Indo-European *tenk-.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dodcadchae f (genitive dodcadchae)
- infelicity
- 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. 63d7
- condan·samailter fri cech ndodcadchai
- so that we are compared to every infelicity
- 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. 63d7
Declension edit
| Feminine iā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | dodcadchaeL | — | — |
| Vocative | dodcadchaeL | — | — |
| Accusative | dodcadchaiN | — | — |
| Genitive | dodcadchae | — | — |
| Dative | dodcadchaiL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation edit
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| dodcadchae | dodcadchae pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ |
ndodcadchae |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “dodcadchae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language