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Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
A contraction of a phrase eter dá aín "between two fasts"; Thursday is between Wednesday and Friday, which were designated fasting days.
Pronunciation
Noun
dardaín f
- Thursday
- Trecheng Breth Féne, published in The Triads of Ireland (1906, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, §217
Trí ferláe: .i. dardaín, aíne, domnach.- Three man-days, i.e. Thursday, Friday, and Sunday.
Inflection
Due to the word's origin as a prepositional phrase, it is indeclinable.
Descendants
Mutation
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dardaín
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/
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ndardaín
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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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