Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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ad- +‎ treb (household)

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ad·treba (prototonic ·atreba, verbal noun atrab or aittrebad)

  1. to inhabit, dwell
    • 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. 107a15
      Bid sochaide a·trefea indiuts{i}u ⁊ bid fáilid nach oín adid·trefea.
      There will be many who will dwell in thee, and every one will be joyful who will so dwell.
      (literally, “…who will dwell it”)

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: aittrebaid

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
ad·treba unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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