dóenacht

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• doínacht

Etymology

From doíni (plural of duine (“person”)) +‎ -acht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪oːi̯.nəxt̪/
  • (Blasse) [ˈd̪oːi̯.naxt̪]
  • (Griffith) [ˈd̪oːi̯.nəxt̪]

Noun

dóenacht f (genitive dóenachtae, no plural)

1. humanity
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, 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. 25^c5

     Foillsigthir as n‑ísel in doínacht íar n‑aicniud húare as in deacht foda·raithmine⟨dar⟩ ⁊ noda·fortachtaigedar.

     It is made clear that the humanity is lowly according to nature because it is the Godhead that remembers it and helps it

Declension

Feminine ā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	dóenachtL	—	—
vocative	dóenachtL	—	—
accusative	dóenachtN	—	—
genitive	dóenachtaeH	—	—
dative	dóenachtL	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• Middle Irish: der1

Mutation

Mutation of dóenacht

radical	lenition	nasalization
dóenacht	dóenacht pronounced with /ð-/	ndóenacht

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “doéndacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language