etargne

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• etarcnae, etarcne, ætarcne, etargn, etargna, etargnæ, etergne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈedarɡne/

Noun

etargne n (genitive etargni, nominative plural etargne)

1. verbal noun of etar·gnin
2. knowledge, understanding
   • 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. 12^c32

     Acht nammáa is samlid is torbe són, co eter·certa a n‑as·bera et con·rucca i n‑ætarcne cáich.

     But it is only thus that this is a profit, that he may interpret what he says and bring it into everyone’s understanding.

Declension

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	etargneN	etargneL	etargneL
Vocative	etargneN	etargneL	etargneL
Accusative	etargneN	etargneL	etargneL
Genitive	etargniL	etargneL	etargneN
Dative	etargnuL	etargnib	etargnib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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