atairbert

Old Irish

Etymology

From aith- +‎ to- +‎ ar- +‎ bert.

Noun

atairbert f

1. verbal noun of ad·tairbir: bringing back
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 197^b15

     .i. atairbert hí forathmet inna persine imme·roraid riam.

     i.e. bringing again into recollection of the person that he has spoken of before.

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	atairbertL	—	—
Vocative	atairbertL	—	—
Accusative	atairbirtN	—	—
Genitive	atairbertaeH	—	—
Dative	atairbirtL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
atairbert	unchanged	n-atairbert
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), “atairbert”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language