daah

From Old Irish dath (“colour, dye”).

• IPA^(key): /daː/

daah m (genitive singular daah, plural daaghyn or daahghyn)

1. colour, colouration, hue

   Cre'n daah dy chabbyl t'ayd?

   What colour is your horse?

2. dye, stain
3. pigment
4. paint

• (colour, hue, dye): cullyr

• kishtey daah (“paintbox”)
• undaah (“monochrome”)
• undaahagh (“monochromatic”)

daah (verbal noun daaghey or daahghey, past participle daait)

1. to colour, dye, paint

• (colour, dye): cullyr

• aaghaah (“redye”)
• neughaa (“discolour”)

From Middle Irish dóigid, from Old Irish dóïd, from Proto-Celtic *dauyeti. Cognate with Irish dóigh (“burn”) and Scottish Gaelic dòth.

• IPA^(key): /dɛː/

daah (past ghaah, verbal noun daahjey, past participle daahjit or daahit)

1. to singe, scorch
2. to cauterize