domnach

Old Irish

Etymology

From a shortening of Late Latin diēs Dominicus (“Sunday”, literally “day of the Lord”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoβ̃.nəx/, [ˈdoβ̃nax]

Noun

domnach m (genitive domnaig)

1. Sunday
   • 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. 45^d7

     I ndomnuch ro·gabad.

     On Sunday, [this psalm] was sung.

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	domnach	domnachL	domnaigL
Vocative	domnaig	domnachL	domnachuH
Accusative	domnachN	domnachL	domnachuH
Genitive	domnaigL	domnach	domnachN
Dative	domnuchL	domnachaib	domnachaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: domnach
  • Irish: Domhnach
  • Manx: Doonaght
  • Scottish Gaelic: Dòmhnach

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
domnach	domnach pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndomnach
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), “domnach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language