escrae

Old Irish

Noun

escrae m (genitive escrai, nominative plural escrai)

1. large drinking vessel

Inflection

Masculine io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	escrae	escraeL	escraiL
Vocative	escrai	escraeL	escru
Accusative	escraeN	escraeL	escruH
Genitive	escraiL	escraeL	escraeN
Dative	escruL	escraib	escraib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: escra
  • Irish: eascra

Mutation

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