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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *dubwiyom, from *dus- (“bad”) + *-bwi- (“being”) + *-om (verbal noun suffix), literally “being bad”. Cognate to Middle Welsh dyfydd (“grief”).[1] Effectively contains the prefix do- (“bad”).
DIL derives dubae from dub (“black”) + -e (abstract suffix). This derivation is probably incorrect given the similarly-formed antonym subae (“joy”, literally “being good”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dubae n (genitive dubai)
- gloom, grief
- Antonym: subae
- 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. 110c9
- glosses maeror
Inflection
| Neuter io-stem
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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| Nominative
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dubaeN
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dubaeL
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dubaeL
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| Vocative
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dubaeN
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dubaeL
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dubaeL
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| Accusative
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dubaeN
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dubaeL
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dubaeL
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| Genitive
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dubaiL
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dubaeL
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dubaeN
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| Dative
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dubuL
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dubaib
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dubaib
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Derived terms
Descendants
Adjective
dubae
- genitive singular feminine of dub
Mutation
Mutation of dubae
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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| dubae
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dubae
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/
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ndubae
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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
- ^ Uhlich, Jurgen (2002) “Verbal governing compounds (synthetics) in Early Irish and other Celtic languages”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, volume 100, number 3, Wiley, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 403–433
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