adaltras
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From adaltair (“adulterer”) (from Latin adulter) + -as
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
adaltras m (genitive adaltrais or adaltrasa)
- adultery
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 3c12:
- ní adaltras dúib
- it is not adultery for you
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 9d24
- arna dich cách assa dligud i n-adaltras tri láthar demuin et tri bar nebcongabthetit-si
- lest everyone go out of his duty into adultery through the Devil’s machination and through your incontinence
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 3c12:
Inflection edit
Masculine u-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | adaltras | adaltrasL | adaltrasaeH, adaltrasa |
Vocative | adaltras | adaltrasL | adaltrasu |
Accusative | adaltrasN | adaltrasL | adaltrasu |
Genitive | adaltrasoH, adaltrasaH | adaltrasoL, adaltrasaL | adaltrasaeN, adaltrasaN |
Dative | adaltrasL | adaltrasaib | adaltrasaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants edit
- Irish: adhaltras
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
adaltras | unchanged | n-adaltras |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “adaltras”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language