airli

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈar͈ʲl͈ʲi]

Noun

airli

1. inflection of airle:
   1. accusative/dative singular
   2. nominative/vocative/accusative dual/plural

Usage notes

At Wb. 31^c7, the phrase nín·tá airli ar mban (“we do not have management of our women”) appears (see airle for the full citation). This construction literally means “there is not to us the management of our women” (a dative of possession), meaning that the nominative airle is expected rather than the accusative airli. This may be a slip of the pen on the part of the scribe, or it may be that the scribe perceived nín·tá as a transitive verb meaning “we do not have” and thus considered airli a direct object.

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
airli (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-airli
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.