airnaide
Old Irish
editEtymology
editNoun
editairnaide n
- verbal noun of ar·neät: waiting
- c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 7, pages 115-179:
- Bui alaili caildech doim oc ernaide Duiblittri isind faichti do guide do-som con·atallad hillis callech.
- There was a certain poor old woman waiting for Dublitir in the field, praying for him to let her sleep in the nuns’ hostel.
Inflection
editNeuter io-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | airnaideN | — | — |
Vocative | airnaideN | — | — |
Accusative | airnaideN | — | — |
Genitive | airnaidiL | — | — |
Dative | airnaidiuL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
airnaide (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-airnaide |
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), “airnaide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language