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That with the days of the week, in each dialect they have Dé at the beginning, except for thursday, which has got the "Dé" bit joined to the whole word.

JayRa377 wrote:That with the days of the week, in each dialect they have Dé at the beginning, except for thursday, which has got the "Dé" bit joined to the whole word.

Yes? And...?

Redwolf

If you're interested:

Apparently, you can take Dé to mean 'day' although I believe it comes from the word for 'god'.

Aoine means 'fast' as in not eating food. Dé hAoine - the day of the fast.
Dé Céadaoin(e) - the day of the first fast of the week, a lesser one than the Friday one.
Déardaoin - Dé idir aoine - the day between fasts.

That's more or less what I was taught in college.

scoobytyson wrote:If you're interested:

Apparently, you can take Dé to mean 'day' although I believe it comes from the word for 'god'.

Aoine means 'fast' as in not eating food. Dé haoine - the day of the fast.
Dé Céadaoin(e) - the day of the first fast of the week, a lesser one than the Friday one.
Déardaoin - Dé idir aoine - the day between fasts.

That's more or less what I was taught in college.

Oh, how interesting! I never knew that! Grmma, a chara!!

Le meas,
Maidhc

Nice, Scoob.. grma..

scoobytyson wrote:If you're interested:

Apparently, you can take Dé to mean 'day' although I believe it comes from the word for 'god'.

Aoine means 'fast' as in not eating food. Dé hAoine - the day of the fast.
Dé Céadaoin(e) - the day of the first fast of the week, a lesser one than the Friday one.
Déardaoin - Dé idir aoine - the day between fasts.

That's more or less what I was taught in college.

I think I remember reading somewhere (but can't remember where, so take this with a fistful of salt) that "Dé" is also an old form of "day," which has been replaced by "lá" in contemporary Irish, and that its resemblence to the genitive form of "Dia" is coincidental. Can't swear to it, though, as I said.

Redwolf

That's quite interesting.
I'm going to read up on it.

scoobytyson wrote:Aoine means 'fast' as in not eating food. Dé hAoine - the day of the fast.
Dé Céadaoin(e) - the day of the first fast of the week, a lesser one than the Friday one.
Déardaoin - Dé idir aoine - the day between fasts.

An-suimiúl ar fad!

Saoirse2009 wrote:

scoobytyson wrote:Aoine means 'fast' as in not eating food. Dé hAoine - the day of the fast.
Dé Céadaoin(e) - the day of the first fast of the week, a lesser one than the Friday one.
Déardaoin - Dé idir aoine - the day between fasts.

An-suimiúl ar fad!

Isn't it?