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Old Irish
Etymology
dodcadach (“unfortunate”) + -e; the former from dodcad (“bad luck”) + -ach; the former from do- + tocad (“luck, fortune”), from Proto-Celtic *tonketos (compare Welsh tynged), from Proto-Indo-European *tenk-.
Pronunciation
Noun
dodcadchae f (genitive dodcadchae)
- infelicity
- 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. 63d7
condan·samailter fri cech ndodcadchai- so that we are compared to every infelicity
Declension
| Feminine iā-stem
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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dodcadchaeL
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| Vocative
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dodcadchaeL
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| Accusative
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dodcadchaiN
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| Genitive
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dodcadchae
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| Dative
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dodcadchaiL
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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Nasalization
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| dodcadchae
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dodcadchae
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/
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ndodcadchae
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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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