aín dídine

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • oín dídine

Etymology

From aín +‎ díden, literally “last fasting”.

Noun

aín dídine f (genitive aíne dídine)

  1. Friday
    • 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. 113c1
      día oíne dídine
      [on] Friday ― glosses Latin in die ante sabatum (“on the day before Saturday”))

Usage notes

Often found following día (“day”). Dídine may also be dropped, leaving just aín or aíne.

Mutation

Mutation of aín dídine
radical lenition nasalization
aín dídine
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)		 aín dídine n-aín dídine

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

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