Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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aire +‎ -dae

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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airegdae (comparative airegdu)

  1. 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
      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 …”)

Declension

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io/iā-stem
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

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  • Irish: aireaghdha

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
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.

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