dord
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See also: dörd
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Irish dord (“buzz, drone; dord”).
Noun
dord (plural dords)
- (music) A type of ancient Irish war-horn.
- 1869, “Folk-lore: Myths and Tales of Various Peoples”, in The London Quarterly & Holborn Review, volume 31, pages 62–63:
- […] there, after digging to a good depth, they find the Dord or great war-horn of Fionn, a blast on which brings “a flock of furious gigantic birds,” and a thigh of one of them is found to be as big as a sheep’s.
Anagrams
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish dord (“buzzing, humming, droning, intoning”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dord m (genitive singular as substantive doird, genitive as verbal noun dordta, nominative plural doird)
- verbal noun of dord
- buzz, drone
- (music) bass
Declension
- As verbal noun
Declension of dord
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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- As substantive
Declension of dord
Derived terms
- andord (“drone, chant”)
- dord figiúrtha (“figured bass”)
- dord-druma (“bass drum”)
- dordeochair (“bass clef”)
- dordfhocal (“buzzword”)
- dordghuth (“bass voice”)
- dordlíne (“bassline”)
- dordóir (“bassist”)
- dordveidhil (“cello”)
- dordveidhlín (“bass fiddle”)
- fo-dhordaire (“subwoofer”)
- fodhord (“subdued murmur; backbiting”)
- olldord (“double bass, contrabass”)
Verb
dord (present analytic dordann, future analytic dordfaidh, verbal noun dord, past participle dordta)
- (intransitive) hum, buzz, drone
- (intransitive) chant in a deep voice
Conjugation
conjugation of dord (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| dord | dhord | ndord |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dord”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “dord”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “dord”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *dor-d-, from imitative Proto-Indo-European root *dʰer-, *dʰrēn- (“drone; to murmur”), see also English drone, dor and Ancient Greek θρῆνος (thrênos, “dirge, lament”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dord m (genitive duird)
Inflection
| Masculine o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | dord | — | — |
| Vocative | duird | — | — |
| Accusative | dordN | — | — |
| Genitive | duirdL | — | — |
| Dative | dordL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Irish: dord
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| dord | dord pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ |
ndord |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dord”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “dwrdd”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies