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Odwyer
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Username: Odwyer
Post Number: 168
Registered: 05-2006
Posted on Sunday, August 06, 2006 - 11:26 am:
Why do the days of the week have Dé in front of them?
Ceartaígí mo chuid Ghaeilge, le bhur dtoil!
Pangur_dubh
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Username: Pangur_dubh
Post Number: 111
Registered: 03-2006
Posted on Sunday, August 06, 2006 - 12:01 pm:
Except, of course, for Déardaoin, where it's embedded already.
Could it possibly mean 'day'? Possibly from a PIE root and cognate with Latin 'dies'?
Any views?
Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 3584
Registered: 08-2004
Posted on Sunday, August 06, 2006 - 04:31 pm:
Dé = dia (older use showed that)
quote:
cognate with Latin 'dies'?
Sea.
Odwyer
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Username: Odwyer
Post Number: 173
Registered: 05-2006
Posted on Sunday, August 06, 2006 - 07:37 pm:
Feicim, go raibh maith agat.
Ceartaígí mo chuid Ghaeilge, le bhur dtoil!
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