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
As substantive

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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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
dord dhord ndord
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
dord dord
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/
ndord
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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