íath
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *ɸētu, from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“fat, milk”).[1]
Noun edit
íath m[2]
Inflection edit
| Masculine u-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | íath | íathL | íathae |
| Vocative | íath | íathL | íathu |
| Accusative | íathN | íathL | íathu |
| Genitive | íathoH, íathaH | íatho, íatha | íathaeN |
| Dative | íathL | íathaib | íathaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation edit
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| íath | unchanged | n-íath |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References edit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*fētu”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 129
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “íath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language