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dord

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See also: dörd

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Irish dord (buzz, drone; dord).

Noun

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dord (plural dords)

  1. (music) A type of ancient Irish war-horn.
    • 1869, “Folk-lore: Myths and Tales of Various Peoples”, in The London Quarterly & Holborn Review, volume 31, pages 62–63:
      [] there, after digging to a good depth, they find the Dord or great war-horn of Fionn, a blast on which brings “a flock of furious gigantic birds,” and a thigh of one of them is found to be as big as a sheep’s.
    • 1994, Dirk Schellberg, Didgeridoo: Ritual Origins and Playing Techniques, →ISBN, page 46:
      [] the first album on which the dord and the didgeridoo could be heard together was entitled: ‘Two stories in One: (Natural Symphonies)’.
    • 2002, Philip Carr-Gomm, Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century, →ISBN, page 64:
      The dord, a form of horn with a sound like the Australian Aborigine’s didgeridoo, was clearly a sacred instrument of the Bronze Age []

Anagrams

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish dord (buzzing, humming, droning, intoning).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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dord m (genitive singular as substantive doird, genitive as verbal noun dordta, nominative plural doird)

  1. verbal noun of dord
  2. buzz, drone
  3. (music) bass

Declension

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As verbal noun
Declension of dord (irregular, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative dord
vocative a dhord
genitive dordta
dative dord
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an dord
genitive an dordta
dative leis an dord
don dord
As substantive
Declension of dord (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative dord doird
vocative a dhoird a dhorda
genitive doird dord
dative dord doird
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an dord na doird
genitive an doird na ndord
dative leis an dord
don dord
leis na doird

Derived terms

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Verb

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dord (present analytic dordann, future analytic dordfaidh, verbal noun dord, past participle dordta)

  1. (intransitive) hum, buzz, drone
  2. (intransitive) chant in a deep voice

Conjugation

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of dord
radical lenition eclipsis
dord dhord ndord

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

References

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *dor-d-, from imitative Proto-Indo-European root *dʰer-, *dʰrēn- (drone; to murmur), see also English drone, dor and Ancient Greek θρῆνος (thrênos, dirge, lament).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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dord m (genitive duird)

  1. buzz, hum, drone

Inflection

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Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative dord
Vocative duird
Accusative dordN
Genitive duirdL
Dative dordL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Irish: dord

Mutation

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Mutation of dord
radical lenition nasalization
dord dord
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/
ndord

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

Further reading

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  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dord”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “dwrdd”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies