epeltu

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• apaltu

Noun

epeltu f

1. verbal noun of at·baill: death
   • 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. 4^d20

     Ba uisse hirnaigde erru, ba liach a n-épeltu.

     Proper was prayer for them, piteous was their perishing.

   • 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. 98^c6

     .i. is huilliu in trocaire do·rigeni dia indate inpecthai do·rogabsat-som air ro·boi du meit a pecthae-som combu uisse a n-epeltu i n-oin-[f]echt; ní ed immurgu du·rigni dia aní-sin.

     i.e. the mercy that God has exercised is greater than the sins that they had committed, for it followed from the greatness of their sins that their dying at one time would have been just; it is not that, however, that God has done.

Inflection

Feminine n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	epeltu	—	—
Vocative	epeltu	—	—
Accusative	epeltainN	—	—
Genitive	epeltan	—	—
Dative	epeltainL, epeltuL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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