Afraicc
Old Irish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editAfraicc f
- Africa (a continent)
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 33a20
- Africanus: .i. arindí a[d]·treba Afraicc ⁊r.
- [The epithet] Africanus: because he possesses Africa etc.
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 33a20
Derived terms
editDescendants
editMutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
Afraicc (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | nAfraicc |
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), “Afraicc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language