domnach
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom a shortening of Late Latin diēs Dominicus (“Sunday”, literally “day of the Lord”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdomnach m (genitive domnaig)
- 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. 45d7
- I ndomnuch ro·gabad.
- On Sunday, [this psalm] was sung.
- 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. 45d7
Inflection
editMasculine o-stem | |||
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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:
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Descendants
editMutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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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
edit- (days of the week) láe sechtmaine; domnach, lúan, Máirt, cétaín, dardaín, aín dídine, Satharn (Category: sga:Days of the week) [edit]
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “domnach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language