airegdae
Old Irish
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editEtymology
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editAdjective
editairegdae (comparative airegdu)
- excellent, eminent
- 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. 18d14
- Ní airegdu a persan-som ol·daas persan na n‑abstal olchene, ceto thoísegu i n‑iriss.
- Their persons are not more eminent than the persons of the rest of the apostles, though they are prior in faith.
- (literally, “Their person is not … than the person of …”)
- 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. 18d14
Declension
editio/iā-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | airegdae | airegdae | airegdae |
Vocative | airegdai | ||
Accusative | airegdae | airegdai | |
Genitive | airegdai | airegdae | airegdai |
Dative | airegdu | airegdai | airegdu |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | airegdai | airegdai | |
Vocative | airegdai airegdu* | ||
Accusative | airegdai airegdu* | ||
Genitive | airegdae | ||
Dative | airegdaib | ||
Notes | * when substantivized |
Descendants
edit- Irish: aireaghdha
Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
airegdae (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-airegdae |
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), “airegda (-ae)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language