"don" meaning in Old Irish

See don in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Article

IPA: /d̪on/ Forms: dond [alternative], dont [alternative], dun [alternative], dund [alternative]
Etymology: Univerbation of di (“of/from”) + in (“the sg”). Etymology templates: {{g|s}} sg, {{univerbation|sga|di|in|t1=of/from|t2=the <abbr title="singular number">sg</abbr>}} Univerbation of di (“of/from”) + in (“the sg”) Head templates: {{head|sga|article form}} don
  1. of/from the sg
    Sense id: en-don-sga-article-78pMMkGr Categories (other): Old Irish entries with incorrect language header, Old Irish univerbations Disambiguation of Old Irish entries with incorrect language header: 65 0 35 Disambiguation of Old Irish univerbations: 100 0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Article

IPA: /d̪on/ Forms: dond [alternative], dont [alternative], dun [alternative], dund [alternative], dúnn [alternative]
Etymology: Univerbation of do (“to/for”) + in (“the sg”). Etymology templates: {{g|s}} sg, {{univerbation|sga|do|in|t1=to/for|t2=the <abbr title="singular number">sg</abbr>}} Univerbation of do (“to/for”) + in (“the sg”) Head templates: {{head|sga|article form}} don
  1. to/for the sg
    Sense id: en-don-sga-article-~PaNVZcN
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: /d̪on/ Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], don [error-unrecognized-form], ndon [error-unrecognized-form]
Head templates: {{head|sga|noun|gender unknown|||{{{2}}}||||||||{{{3}}}||{{{pl2}}}||{{{pl3}}}|altform=|cat2=|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} don (gender unknown), {{sga-noun|u}} don (gender unknown) Inflection templates: {{sga-mutation}}
  1. misfortune, evil
    Sense id: en-don-sga-noun-kHoPNNut
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Alternative forms

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Download raw JSONL data for don meaning in Old Irish (3.6kB)

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