Día

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dia"

Old Irish

Etymology

Capitalized form of día (“a god”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dʲiːa̯/

Proper noun

Día m (genitive Dé)

  1. (Christianity) God
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13b15
      Is gúḟorcell do·beram do Día amal ṡodin.
      It is false testimony that we give to God in that case.
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 29a12
      indhí pridchite et for·chanat bréthir Dǽ
      those who preach and teach God’s word
    • c. 875, 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. 51b12
      ní ind fessin eirbthi, ⁊ nách dó du·aisilbi na nní do·gní, acht is do Día
      it is not in himself that he trusts, and it is not to himself that he ascribes whatever he does, but it is to God
Declension
Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Día — —
Vocative Dé, Dǽ — —
Accusative DíaN — —
Genitive DéL, Dǽ — —
Dative DíaL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
Descendants

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
Día Día
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/		 nDía
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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