Derdriu
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Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From derdrethar (“rages, resounds”), from dord (“to buzz, drone”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Derdriu f (genitive Derdrenn)
- a female given name, most famously borne by a tragic heroine of the Ulster Cycle.
Inflection
[edit]| Feminine n-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | Derdriu | — | — |
| Vocative | Derdriu | — | — |
| Accusative | DerdrinnN | — | — |
| Genitive | Derdrenn | — | — |
| Dative | DerdrinnL, DerdriuL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| Deirdre | Deirdre pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ |
nDeirdre |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
[edit]- ^ Stüber, K. (1998). The Historical Morphology of N-stems in Celtic. Ireland: Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, p. 103
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Deirdriu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language