adgainethar

Old Irish

Etymology

From aith- (“re-”) +‎ gainithir (“to be born”).

Verb

ad·gainethar (prototonic ·aithgainethar, verbal noun aithgin)

1. to be reborn
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 66^b6

     .i. babtismi .i. ad·gainemmar ni hi Críst

     i.e. of the baptism; i.e. we are born again in Christ. (glossing Latin regenerationis)

2. (law) to restitute

Inflection

Complex, class B II present, a future

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			ad·gainethar	ad·gainemmar
	Prot.			·aithgainethar			·aidgenetar		·adgenedar
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Deut.			ad·gignethar
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		aithgin, aithgein
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ad·gainethar	ad·gainethar pronounced with /-ɣ(ʲ)-/	ad·ngainethar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ad-gainethar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language