damán allaid

Old Irish

FWOTD – 24 January 2024

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdaβ̃aːn ˈal͈ɨðʲ]

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. 59^d1

     inna ndamán n-allaid [translating aranearum]

     of the spiders

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

Mutation of damán allaid

radical	lenition	nasalization
damán allaid	damán allaid pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndamán allaid

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “damán allaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language