ainder

Old Irish

FWOTD – 9 January 2016

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *anderā (compare Welsh anner, Cornish annor, Breton annoar, all ‘heifer’).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈan͈ʲdʲər/

Noun

ainder f

1. married woman, nonvirgin
2. virgin, maiden

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ainderL	aindirL	aindreH
Vocative	ainderL	aindirL	aindreH
Accusative	aindirN	aindirL	aindreH
Genitive	aindreH	ainderL	ainderN
Dative	aindirL	aindrib	aindrib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: ainnir
• Scottish Gaelic: ainnir

Mutation

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