Día

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

• Irish: Dia
• Manx: Jee
• Scottish Gaelic: Dia

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
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.