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Irish
Proper noun
Donnchadh m (genitive Donnchadha)
- Superseded spelling of Donncha.
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| Donnchadh
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Dhonnchadh
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nDonnchadh
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish Donnchad, from donn (“brown”) plus either cath (“battle”) or cáid (“noble”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Donnchadh m (genitive Dhonnchaidh, vocative a Dhonnchaidh, diminutive Dochaidh)
- a male given name from Old Irish, equivalent to English Duncan
Descendants
References
- ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis), Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
- ^ Mac Gill-Fhinnein, Gordon (1966) Gàidhlig Uidhist a Deas, Dublin: Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath
- ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis), Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh