dubae

See also: dubä

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dubwiyom, from *dus- (“bad”) +‎ *-bwi- (“being”) +‎ *-om (verbal noun suffix), literally “being bad”. Cognate to Middle Welsh dyfydd (“grief”).[1] Effectively contains the prefix do- (“bad”).

DIL derives dubae from dub (“black”) +‎ -e (abstract suffix). This derivation is probably incorrect given the similarly-formed antonym subae (“joy”, literally “being good”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈduβɘ]

Noun

dubae n (genitive dubai)

  1. gloom, grief
    Antonym: subae
    • 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. 110c9
      glosses maeror

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
singular dual plural
nominative dubaeN dubaeL dubaeL
vocative dubaeN dubaeL dubaeL
accusative dubaeN dubaeL dubaeL
genitive dubaiL dubaeL dubaeN
dative dubuL dubaib dubaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: dubha

Adjective

dubae

  1. genitive singular feminine of dub

Mutation

Mutation of dubae
radical lenition nasalization
dubae dubae
pronounced with /ð-/		 ndubae

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

References

  1. ^ Uhlich, Jurgen (2002) “Verbal governing compounds (synthetics) in Early Irish and other Celtic languages”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, volume 100, number 3, Wiley, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 403–433

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