dá

• IPA^(key):

dá

1. third-person singular present indicative of dát

dá

1. ask for, request, demand

dá

1. inflection of dar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /tauː/
• Rhymes: -auː

From Old Norse dá (“trance, senseless state”), from Proto-Germanic *dawą (“trance”), a nominal formation related to Etymology 2.

dá n (genitive singular dás, no plural)

1. coma

   Synonyms: dauðadá n, svefndá n

• liggja í dái (“to be in a coma”, literally “to lie in a coma”)
• falla í dá (“to fall into a coma”)

• stjarfi
• svefnhöfgi

From Old Norse dá (“to admire”), from Proto-Germanic *dawāną (“to marvel”).

dá (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative dáði, supine dáð)

1. to adore, admire greatly
2. to worship

   Synonym: dýrka

   Ég dái þig.

   I worship you.

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɑː/^[1][2]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠaː/

From Old Irish dïa (“if, when”).^[3] Cognate with Scottish Gaelic nan (“if, whether”).

dá (triggers eclipsis of a following consonant and takes the dependent form of irregular verbs)

1. if

   Dá gcuirfeann sé fearthainne anois, d’osclófainn mo scáth fearthainne.

   If it were raining now, I would open my umbrella.

   Dá dtéiteá ar an aonach, b’fhéidir leat gamhain a dhíol.

   If you had gone to the market, you could have sold a calf.

2. when (relative, with past tenses)

   lá dá raibh sé ann

   one day when he was there

• Used in counterfactual conditionals with the conditional or past subjunctive.
• In the meaning ‘when’ used virtually only in the past tense after the word lá (“day”), in Early Modern Irish also with feacht (“time, occasion”); in other contexts, especially at the head of sentence, nuair or an tan is used instead.

• dhá

• má (“if”) (in factual conditionals)
• mura (“unless; if...not”)

dá

1. Contraction of do + a (various meanings)

   ‘to his, to its’ (triggers lenition)

   ‘to her, to its’ (triggers h-prothesis)

   2015 [2014], Will Collins, translated by Proinsias Mac a' Bhaird, edited by Maura McHugh, Amhrán na Mara (fiction; paperback), Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Howth, Dublin: Cartoon Saloon; Coiscéim, translation of Song of the Sea (in English), →ISBN, page 1:

   Thuas i dteach an tsolais, faoi réaltaí geala, canann Bronach Amhrán na Mara dá mac Ben atá cúig bliana d'aois.

   ‘to their’ (triggers eclipsis)

   ‘to which’ (triggers eclipsis, takes the dependent form of irregular verbs)

2. Contraction of de + a (various meanings)

   ‘from his, from its’ (triggers lenition)

   ‘from her, from its’ (triggers h-prothesis)

   ‘from their’ (triggers eclipsis)

   ‘from which’ (triggers eclipsis, takes the dependent form of irregular verbs)

3. used with an abstract noun (which undergoes lenition) to denote a degree, equivalent to English however (“to whatever extent or degree”)

   dá fhad an bhóthar ― however long the road (literally, “from its length the road”)

4. used with an abstract noun (which undergoes lenition) followed by is ea is or just is to form the equivalent of English the... the...

   dá luaithe (is ea) is fearr ― the sooner the better (literally, “from its earliness the better”)

• dhá

dá

1. Alternative form of dhá (“two”) (used after an, aon, and chéad (“first”)).
   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 66:

     ńīr l̄auŕ šē lm̥ əŕ fȧ n dā l̄ā.

     [Níor labhair sé liom ar feadh an dá lá.]

     He didn’t talk to me for two days.

Cognate to Chinese 的.

• IPA^(key): /da/

dá

1. Used after an attribute. Indicates that the previous word has possession of the next one. It functions like ’s in English (or like the word “of” but with the position of possessor and possessee switched). ’s; of

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

• da — nonstandard

dá (da², Zhuyin ㄉㄚˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 羍
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 荅
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 劄
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 匒
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 呾
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 妲
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 怛
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 打
9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 沓
10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 溚
11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 炟
12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 畗
13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 畣
14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瘨
15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 笪
16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 答
17. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 箒 / 帚
18. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 繨 / 𫄤
19. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 羆 / 罴
20. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 胃
21. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 荄
22. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 荙
23. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 薘 / 荙
24. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蟽
25. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 褟
26. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 詚
27. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 达
28. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 迖
29. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 逹, 達 / 达
30. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鄽
31. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 酃
32. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鐽 / 𫟼
33. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 靼
34. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 韃 / 鞑
35. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瘩

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈtaː/

dá

1. here

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

• da

From Proto-Celtic *duwo, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.

• IPA^(key): /daː/

dá (governing a noun like a determiner)

1. two
   • 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. 67^d14

     Amal rund·gab slíab Sión andes ⁊ antúaid du⟨n⟩ chath⟨raig⟩ dïa dítin, sic rund·gabsat ar ṅdá thoíb du dítin ar n-inmedónach-ni.

     As Mount Sion is located on the south and the north of the city to protect it, so are our two sides there to protect our insides.

   • c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 110c

     Ba bés leusom do·bertis dá boc leu dochum tempuil, ⁊ no·léicthe indala n‑ái fon díthrub co pecad in popuil, ⁊ do·bertis maldachta foir, ⁊ n⟨o⟩·oircthe didiu and ó popul tar cenn a pecthae ind aile.

     It was a custom with them that two he-goats were brought by them to the temple, and one of the two of them was let go to the wilderness with the sin of the people, and curses were put upon him, and thereupon the other was slain there by the people for their sins.

• dáu (used pronominally)

• Irish: dhá, dá, a dó
• Manx: daa
• Scottish Gaelic: dà, dhà

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaː/

dá

1. these

• Joshua Wilbur (2014) A grammar of Pite Saami, Berlin: Language Science Press, page 115

• da (obsolete)
• dah (Brazil, Internet slang)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dá, from Latin dat.

• Rhymes: -a
• Homophone: dar (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: dá

dá

1. inflection of dar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. Apocopic form of dar; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las
3. Eye dialect spelling of dar, representing Brazil Portuguese.