airegdae
Old Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
airegdae (comparative airegdu)
- excellent, eminent
- 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. 18d14
- Ní airegdu a persan-som ol·daas persan na n‑abstal olchene, ceto thoísegu i n‑iriss.
- Their persons are not more eminent than the persons of the rest of the apostles, though they are prior in faith.
- (literally, “Their person is not … than the person of …”)
- 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. 18d14
Declension edit
io/iā-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | airegdae | airegdae | airegdae |
Vocative | airegdai | ||
Accusative | airegdae | airegdai | |
Genitive | airegdai | airegdae | airegdai |
Dative | airegdu | airegdai | airegdu |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | airegdai | airegdai | |
Vocative | airegdai airegdu* | ||
Accusative | airegdai airegdu* | ||
Genitive | airegdae | ||
Dative | airegdaib | ||
Notes | * when substantivized |
Descendants edit
- Irish: aireaghdha
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
airegdae | unchanged | n-airegdae |
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), “airegda (-ae)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language