dorchatas

Middle Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdorxədəs/

Noun

dorchatas m (genitive dorchatais)

1. darkness

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• deime
• duibe
• teimel
• teimne

Descendants

• Irish: dorchadas
• Scottish Gaelic: dorchadas

Mutation

Mutation of dorchatas

radical	lenition	nasalization
dorchatas	dorchatas pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/, later /ɣ(ʲ)-/	ndorchatas

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle 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), “dorchatus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language