eirr

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *en-rets, from the stem of *reteti (“to run”) with the prefix in-.

Noun

eirr (gender unknown)

1. a chariot-fighter

Inflection

Masculine t-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	eirr	eirridL, eirr	eirrid
Vocative	eirr	eirridL, eirr	eirreda
Accusative	eirridN	eirridL, eirr	eirreda
Genitive	eirred	eirred	eirredN
Dative	eirridL	eirredaib	eirredaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: err

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “eirr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language