damán allaid

Old Irish

Etymology

From damán (“calf, fawn”) +‎ allaid (“wild”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈdaṽaːn ˈal͈iðʲ/

Noun

damán allaid m (genitive damáin allaid)

  1. spider
    • 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. 59d1
      inna ndamán n-allaid ― (glosses Latin aranearum)

Inflection
Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative damán allaid damán altai damáin altai
Vocative damáin allaid damán altai damánu altai
Accusative damán n-allaid damán altai damánu altai
Genitive damáin allaid damán allaid damán n-allaid
Dative damán allaid damánaib altaib damánaib altaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants
  • Irish: damhán alla
  • Manx: doo-oallee
  • Scottish Gaelic: damhan-allaidh

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
damán allaid damán allaid
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/		 ndamán allaid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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