dodona

See also: Dodona

Old Irish

Etymology

Probably denominal dí- (“from”) +‎ don (“misfortune”), literally “to take away misfortune”. Cognate to Welsh diddanu (“to amuse, comfort”) and Cornish didhana (“amuse, entertain”).^[1]

Verb

do·dona (prototonic ·didna, verbal noun dídnad)

to comfort, console
- 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. 86^d3
  ol nacham·didna-sa
  because it does not console me

Inflection

Complex, class A I present, a subjunctive
		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd	singular	plural
present indicative	deut.	do·donaimm						to·donathar
present indicative	prot.			·didna

imperfect indicative	deut.			dudam·donad (with infixed pronoun dam-)				dum·dontae (with infixed pronoun m-)
imperfect indicative	prot.

preterite	deut.
preterite	prot.

perfect	deut.							do·rondonad (sic)
perfect	prot.

future	deut.
future	prot.

conditional	deut.
conditional	prot.

present subjunctive	deut.						do·donat
present subjunctive	prot.

past subjunctive	deut.
past subjunctive	prot.

imperative						da·ndonid (with infixed pronoun a-)

verbal noun		dídnad
past participle
verbal of necessity

Related terms

donad (“consolation”)
don (“misfortune”)
son (“happy”)

Mutation

Mutation of *dodona*
radical	lenition	nasalization
do·dona	do·dona pronounced with /-ð(ʲ)-/	do·ndona

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

^ Vendryes, Joseph (1996) “do-dona”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume D, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page D-132