airnigde

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• irnigde (Würzburg glosses)
• ernaigde, ernigde (Milan glosses)
• aurnaichti, aurnaigti (Monastery of Tallaght)

Etymology

From ar- +‎ ni- +‎ guide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈar͈ʲn͈ʲiɣʲðʲe]

Noun

airnigde f

1. verbal noun of ar·neget: prayer, praying
2. way to pray, way of praying

For quotations using this term, see Citations:airnigde.

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	airnigdeL	airnigdiL	airnigdi
Vocative	airnigdeL	airnigdiL	airnigdi
Accusative	airnigdiN	airnigdiL	airnigdi
Genitive	airnigde	airnigdeL	airnigdeN
Dative	airnigdiL	airnigdib	airnigdib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: aurnaigthe
  • Irish: urnaí
  • Manx: yeearree
  • Scottish Gaelic: ùrnaigh

Mutation

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