cercdae

Old Irish

Etymology

From cerc (“hen”) +‎ -dae (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʲerʲkðʲe/

Adjective

cercdae

1. poultry, fowl (attributive)
   • 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. 58^b2

     cercdae glosses gallīnācius

Declension

io/iā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cercdae	cercdae	cercdae
Vocative	cercdai
Accusative	cercdae	cercdai
Genitive	cercdai	cercdae	cercdai
Dative	cercdu	cercdai	cercdu
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	cercdai	cercdai
Vocative	cercdai cercdu*
Accusative	cercdai cercdu*
Genitive	cercdae
Dative	cercdaib
Notes	* when substantivized

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cercdae	chercdae	cercdae pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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), “cercdae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language