dorchatas

Middle Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdorxədəs/

Noun

dorchatas m (genitive dorchatais)

1. darkness

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• deime
• duibe
• teimel
• teimne

Descendants

• Irish: dorchadas
• Scottish Gaelic: dorchadas

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
dorchatas	dorchatas pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/, later /ɣ(ʲ)-/	ndorchatas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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