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Old Irish
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
déde n
- two things
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14c23
co beid .i. co mbed a ndéde sin im labrad-sa .i. gáu et fír .i. combad sain a n‑as·berin ó bélib et aní imme·rádin ó chridiu- so that there may be, i.e. so that those two things might be in my speaking, namely false and true, i.e. so that what I might say with mouth and what I might think with heart might be different
Declension
Neuter io-stem
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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Nominative
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dédeN
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Vocative
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dédeN
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Accusative
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dédeN
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Genitive
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dédiL
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Dative
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dédiuL
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Mutation
Mutation of déde
radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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déde
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déde pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/
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ndéde
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “déide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 387, page 243; reprinted 2017