damnaigh

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish damnaid (from Latin damnō) +‎ -igh.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈd̪ˠɑmˠən̪ˠɪɟ/
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈd̪ˠamˠnˠə/, /ˈd̪ˠamˠnˠiː/; /ˈd̪ˠamˠn̪ˠə/, /ˈd̪ˠamˠn̪ˠiː/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈd̪ˠamˠnˠi/, /ˈd̪ˠamˠn̪ˠi/

Verb

damnaigh (present analytic damnaíonn, future analytic damnóidh, verbal noun damnú, past participle damnaithe)

  1. to damn
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 62:
      tā šē rācə sə šḱŕīviń ȷēǵī, gə namnō ȷiə n cə, ə xȧhəs ə hȳəl gə h-olək.
      [Tá sé ráite sa scríbhinn diaga go ndamnóidh Dia an té a chaitheas a shaol go holc.]
      It is said in holy scripture that God will damn the one who spends his life badly.

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 damnaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 damnaigidir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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