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Irish
Etymology
dó + -ú
Adjective
dóú (abbreviated 2ú)
- second (ordinal number of 2)
- an dóú fear déag ― the twelfth man
- an dóú lá is fiche ― the twenty-second day
Usage notes
- Used only with compound numbers ending in 2 (12, 22, etc.). The word for ‘second’ is otherwise dara.
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| dóú
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dhóú
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ndóú
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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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References
- ^ “dóú”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
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