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Old Irish
Etymology
Probably denominal dí- (“from”) + don (“misfortune”), literally “to take away misfortune”. Cognate to Welsh diddanu (“to amuse, comfort”) and Cornish didhana (“amuse, entertain”).[1]
Verb
do·dona (prototonic ·didna, verbal noun dídnad)
- to comfort, console
- 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. 86d3
ol nacham·didna-sa- because it does not console me
Inflection
Complex, class A I present, a subjunctive
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do·donaimm
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to·donathar
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dudam·donad (with infixed pronoun dam-)
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do·rondonad (sic)
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do·donat
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da·ndonid (with infixed pronoun a-)
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dídnad
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Mutation
Mutation of dodona
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nasalization
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do·dona
pronounced with /-ð(ʲ)-/
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do·ndona
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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.
References
- ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1996) “do-dona”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume D, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page D-132
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