deorudán

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• deórudán

Etymology

From déorad +‎ -án.

Noun

deorudán m

1. (hapax) exile, wanderer
   • c. 808, Félire Oengusso, Epilogue, line 366; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:

     Cluinte lat, a Íssu, deórudán lobur!

     Hear you, O Jesus, [thy] feeble exile!

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	deorudán	deorudánL	deorudáinL
Vocative	deorudáin	deorudánL	deorudánuH
Accusative	deorudánN	deorudánL	deorudánuH
Genitive	deorudáinL	deorudán	deorudánN
Dative	deorudánL	deorudánaib	deorudánaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of deorudán

radical	lenition	nasalization
deorudáin	deorudáin pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndeorudáin

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), “deoradán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language