Old Irish edit

Noun edit

airdbe n (genitive airdbi)

  1. verbal noun of ar·díben: smiting, killing
    • 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. 14a2
      .i. iar n-ardbiu inna banflatha-sin
      i.e. after the destruction of that queen [Athaliah].

Inflection edit

Neuter io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative airdbeN airdbeL airdbeL
Vocative airdbeN airdbeL airdbeL
Accusative airdbeN airdbeL airdbeL
Genitive airdbiL airdbeL airdbeN
Dative airdbiuL airdbib airdbib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation edit

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

Further reading edit