dá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "da"

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈdaː]

Verb

dá

third-person singular present indicative of dát

Verb

dá

ask for, request, demand

Verb

dá

inflection of dar:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tauː/
Rhymes: -auː

Etymology 1

From Old Norse dá (“trance, senseless state”), from Proto-Germanic *dawą (“trance”), a nominal formation related to Etymology 2.

Noun

dá n (genitive singular dás, no plural)

coma
Synonyms: dauðadá n, svefndá n

Declension

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	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	dá	dáið
accusative	dá	dáið
dative	dái	dáinu
genitive	dás	dásins

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Declension of dá (sg-only neuter)

Derived terms

liggja í dái (“to be in a coma”, literally “to lie in a coma”)
falla í dá (“to fall into a coma”)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse dá (“to admire”), from Proto-Germanic *dawāną (“to marvel”).

Verb

dá (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative dáði, supine dáð)

to adore, admire greatly
to worship
Synonym: dýrka

Ég dái þig.
I worship you.

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Pronunciation

(Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɑː/^[1]^[2]
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠaː/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish dïa (“if, when”).^[3] Cognate with Scottish Gaelic nan (“if, whether”).

Conjunction

dá (triggers eclipsis of a following consonant and takes the dependent form of irregular verbs)

if
Dá gcuirfeann sé fearthainne anois, d’osclófainn mo scáth fearthainne.
If it were raining now, I would open my umbrella.

Dá dtéiteá ar an aonach, b’fhéidir leat gamhain a dhíol.
If you had gone to the market, you could have sold a calf.
when (relative, with past tenses)
lá dá raibh sé ann
one day when he was there

Usage notes

Used in counterfactual conditionals with the conditional or past subjunctive.
In the meaning ‘when’ used virtually only in the past tense after the word lá (“day”), in Early Modern Irish also with feacht (“time, occasion”); in other contexts, especially at the head of sentence, nuair or an tan is used instead.

Alternative forms

dhá

Etymology 2

Contraction

dá

Contraction of do + a (various meanings)
‘to his, to its’ (triggers lenition)

‘to her, to its’ (triggers h-prothesis)
2015 [2014], Will Collins, translated by Proinsias Mac a' Bhaird, edited by Maura McHugh, Amhrán na Mara (fiction; paperback), Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Howth, Dublin: Cartoon Saloon; Coiscéim, translation of Song of the Sea (in English), →ISBN, page 1:
Thuas i dteach an tsolais, faoi réaltaí geala, canann Bronach Amhrán na Mara dá mac Ben atá cúig bliana d'aois.
[original: Up in the lighthouse, under twinkling stars, Bronach sings the Song of the Sea to her five-year-old son, Ben.]

‘to their’ (triggers eclipsis)

‘to which’ (triggers eclipsis, takes the dependent form of irregular verbs)
Contraction of de + a (various meanings)
‘from his, from its’ (triggers lenition)

‘from her, from its’ (triggers h-prothesis)

‘from their’ (triggers eclipsis)

‘from which’ (triggers eclipsis, takes the dependent form of irregular verbs)
used with an abstract noun (which undergoes lenition) to denote a degree, equivalent to English however (“to whatever extent or degree”)
dá fhad an bhóthar ― however long the road (literally, “from its length the road”)
used with an abstract noun (which undergoes lenition) followed by is ea is or just is to form the equivalent of English the... the...
dá luaithe (is ea) is fearr ― the sooner the better (literally, “from its earliness the better”)

Alternative forms

dhá

Related terms

More information Basic form, Contracted with ...

Basic form	Contracted with							Copular forms
Basic form	an (“the sg”)	na (“the pl”)	mo (“my”)	do (“your”)	a (“his, her, their; which (present)”)	ár (“our”)	ar (“which (past)”)	(before consonant)	(present/future before vowel)	(past/conditional before vowel)
de (“from”)	den	de na desna*	de mo dem*	de do ded, det	dá	dár		dar	darb	darbh
do (“to, for”)	don	do na dosna*	do mo dom*	do do dod, dot	dá	dár		dar	darb	darbh
faoi (“under, about”)	faoin	faoi na	faoi mo	faoi do	faoina	faoinár	faoinar		faoinarb	faoinarbh
i (“in”)	sa, san	sna	i mo im*	i do id, it	ina	inár	inar		inarb	inarbh
le (“with”)	leis an	leis na	le mo lem*	le do led, let	lena	lenár	lenar		lenarb	lenarbh
ó (“from, since”)	ón	ó na ósna*	ó mo óm*	ó do ód, ót	óna	ónár	ónar		ónarb	ónarbh
trí (“through”)	tríd an	trí na	trí mo	trí do	trína	trínár	trínar		trínarb	trínarbh
*Dialectal.

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Etymology 3

Numeral

dá

Alternative form of dhá (“two”) (used after an, aon, and chéad (“first”)).
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 66:
  ńīr l̄auŕ šē lm̥ əŕ fȧ n dā l̄ā.
  [Níor labhair sé liom ar feadh an dá lá.]
  He didn’t talk to me for two days.

References

[1]
Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 64
[2]
Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 66
[3]
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 día n-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Etymology

Cognate to Chinese 的.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /da/

Postposition

dá

Used after an attribute. Indicates that the previous word has possession of the next one. It functions like ’s in English (or like the word “of” but with the position of possessor and possessee switched). ’s; of

References

Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Alternative forms

da — nonstandard

Romanization

dá (da², Zhuyin ㄉㄚˊ)

Hanyu Pinyin reading of 羍
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 荅
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 劄
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 匒
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 呾
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 妲
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 怛
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 打
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 沓
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 溚
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 炟
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 畗
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 畣
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瘨
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 笪
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 答
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 箒 / 帚
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 繨 / 𫄤
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 羆 / 罴
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 胃
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 荄
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 荙
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 薘 / 荙
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蟽
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 褟
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 詚
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 达
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 迖
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 逹, 達 / 达
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鄽
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 酃
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鐽 / 𫟼
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 靼
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 韃 / 鞑
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瘩

Etymology

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Pronunciation

(Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈtaː/

Adverb

dá

here

Alternative forms

da

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *duwo, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /daː/

Numeral

**Old Irish cardinal numbers**
< 1	2	3 >
Cardinal : dá Ordinal : tánaise

dá (governing a noun like a determiner)

two
- 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. 67^d14
  Amal rund·gab slíab Sión andes ⁊ antúaid du⟨n⟩ chath⟨raig⟩ dïa dítin, sic rund·gabsat ar ṅdá thoíb du dítin ar n-inmedónach-ni.
  As Mount Sion is located on the south and the north of the city to protect it, so are our two sides there to protect our insides.
- c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 110c
  Ba bés leusom do·bertis dá boc leu dochum tempuil, ⁊ no·léicthe indala n‑ái fon díthrub co pecad in popuil, ⁊ do·bertis maldachta foir, ⁊ n⟨o⟩·oircthe didiu and ó popul tar cenn a pecthae ind aile.
  It was a custom with them that two he-goats were brought by them to the temple, and one of the two of them was let go to the wilderness with the sin of the people, and curses were put upon him, and thereupon the other was slain there by the people for their sins.

Declension

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Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative Accusative	dá^L	dí^L	dá^N
Genitive	dá^L		dá^N
Dative	dib^N
^L = Triggers lenition ^N = Triggers nasalization (eclipsis)

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Synonyms

dáu (used pronominally)

Descendants

Irish: dhá, dá, a dó
Manx: daa
Scottish Gaelic: dà, dhà

Mutation

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Mutation of dá
radical	lenition	nasalization
dá	dá pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndá

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

References

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtaː/

Pronoun

dá

these

Declension

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	singular	plural
Nominative	dát	dá, dáh
Genitive	dán	dáj
Accusative	dáv	dájt
Illative	dása	dájda
Inessive	dán	dájtne
Elative	dásste	dájste
Comitative	dájna	dáj

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Inflection of dá

References

Joshua Wilbur (2014) A grammar of Pite Saami, Berlin: Language Science Press, page 115

Alternative forms

da (obsolete)
dah (Brazil, Internet slang)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dá, from Latin dat.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈda/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈda/

Rhymes: -a
Homophone: dar (Brazil)
Hyphenation: dá

Verb

dá

inflection of dar:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative
Apocopic form of dar; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las
Eye dialect spelling of dar, representing Brazil Portuguese.

[1] [1]
Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 64

[2] [2]
Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 66

[3] [3]
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 día n-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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[2]

[3]

	singular	plural
Proximal	dát	dá
Distal	dat	da
Remote	dut	du

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