énirte
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom énirt (“weak”) (from ess- (“non-”) + nert (“strength”)) + -e.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editénirte f
- weakness
- 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. 4a27
- Is and didiu for·téit spiritus ar n-énirti-ni in tain bes n-inun accobor lenn .i. la corp et anim et la spirut.
- So it is then that the spirit helps our weakness when we have the same desire, i.e. body and soul and spirit.
- 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. 4a27
Declension
editFeminine iā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | énirteL | — | — |
Vocative | énirteL | — | — |
Accusative | énirtiN | — | — |
Genitive | énirte | — | — |
Dative | énirtiL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
edit- Irish: éinirte
Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
énirte (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-énirte |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “énirte, énarte, inirte”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language