adaltras

Old Irish

Etymology

From adaltair (“adulterer”) (from Latin adulter) +‎ -as

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaðal͈tras]

Noun

adaltras m (genitive adaltrais or adaltrasa)

1. adultery
   • 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. 3^c12:

     ní adaltras dúib

     it is not adultery for you

   • 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. 9^d24

     arna dich cách assa dligud i n-adaltras tri láthar demuin et tri bar nebcongabthetit-si

     lest everyone go out of his duty into adultery through the Devil’s machination and through your incontinence

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	adaltras	adaltrasL	adaltrasaeH, adaltrasa
Vocative	adaltras	adaltrasL	adaltrasu
Accusative	adaltrasN	adaltrasL	adaltrasu
Genitive	adaltrasoH, adaltrasaH	adaltrasoL, adaltrasaL	adaltrasaeN, adaltrasaN
Dative	adaltrasL	adaltrasaib	adaltrasaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: adhaltras

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
adaltras (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-adaltras
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), “adaltras”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language