Labhrás wrote:
Gumbi wrote:
Arm Neartmhar Ungtha Dé na Laethanta Deireanacha[/b]
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I'd think you cannot use "Dé" and a second genitive with "na".
"Arm" is made definite ("the army") by "Dé" so no additional article is possible.
Not quite. First of all, the rule evaluates from inside out, deepest genitive first, so right-to-left. A definite to the right obviates the need for one to the left, but not the other way round.
(In fact, it was suggested to me last week that this rule is taught completely wrong in Scottish Gaelic, and I suspect the same holds for Irish -- the rule I was told last week is that only the leftmost, genitive marked noun can take the article, and everything else is qualified by the noun below it (analogous to how you can't say "John's brother's the son is John's the nephew in English", although word order here is reversed).)
Now... is it possible to have two rightmost nouns? Actually yes, and it's best shown by breaking the phrase down into its components.
Consider that the following is not a subpart of the nounphrase:
.. Dé na Laethanta Deireanacha
It is not referring to a "God of the final days", so "God" is leftmost in a subphrase, and "the final days" is leftmost in the full phrase.
I'm noticing that the preposition "de" (of) is missing for "Arm Neartmhar Ungtha Dé
na Laethanta Deireanacha". Because, just like you said, It is not referring to a "God of the final days", but "God's anointed mighty army