dodona

See also: Dodona

Old Irish

Etymology

Probably denominal dí- (“from”) +‎ don (“misfortune”), literally “to take away misfortune”. Cognate to Welsh diddanu (“to amuse, comfort”) and Cornish didhana (“amuse, entertain”).

Verb

do·dona (prototonic ·didna, verbal noun dídnad)

1. to comfort, console
   • 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. 86^d3

     ol nacham·didna-sa

     because it does not console me

Inflection

Complex, class A I present, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.	do·donaimm						to·donathar
	Prot.			·didna
Imperfect indicative	Deut.			dudam·donad (with infixed pronoun dam-)				dum·dontae (with infixed pronoun m-)
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.							do·rondonad (sic)
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.						do·donat
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative						da·ndonid (with infixed pronoun a-)
Verbal noun		dídnad
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Related terms

• donad (“consolation”)
• don (“misfortune”)
• son (“happy”)

Mutation

Mutation of dodona

radical	lenition	nasalization
do·dona	do·dona pronounced with /-ð(ʲ)-/	do·ndona

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), “do-dona”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language