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): /ˈduve/

Noun

dubae n (genitive dubai)

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. 110^c9
  glosses maeror

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	dubae^N	dubae^L	dubae^L
Vocative	dubae^N	dubae^L	dubae^L
Accusative	dubae^N	dubae^L	dubae^L
Genitive	dubai^L	dubae^L	dubae^N
Dative	dubu^L	dubaib	dubaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

dubach

Descendants

Irish: dubha

Adjective

dubae

genitive singular feminine of dub

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
dubae	dubae pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndubae
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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