adtreba

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• a·treba
• at·treba

Etymology

ad- +‎ treb (“household”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a(ð)ˈtʲrʲeva/

Verb

ad·treba (prototonic ·atreba, verbal noun atrab or aittrebad)

1. to inhabit, dwell
   • 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. 107^a15

     Bid sochaide a·trefea indiuts{i}u ⁊ bid fáilid nach oín adid·trefea.

     There will be many who will dwell in thee, and every one will be joyful who will so dwell.

     (literally, “…who will dwell it”)

Inflection

Complex, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			a·treba, at·treba			a·trebat	a·trebthar
	Prot.			·atreba
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.			ad·rothreb			ros·aitrebsad (with infixed pronoun s-)
	Prot.
Future	Deut.			a·trefea, a·trebea; adid·trefea (with infixed pronoun id-)
	Prot.						·roatrebatt (ro-form)
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.							·aittrebtha
Present subjunctive	Deut.				a·trebom; ro·atrebam (ro-form)
	Prot.			·roaitreba
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		attrab, aittrebad
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Related terms

• ad·aittreba

Descendants

• Middle Irish: aittrebaid
  • Irish: áitreabh, áitrigh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ad·treba	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ad·treba”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language