aitire
Middle Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Literally, “being between”, or more loosely translated as “one who stands between”.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aitire f (genitive aitire)
- (law) hostage suretyship
- Dotéit aitire ar ḟer feras in fuil.
- He goes surety for the man who inflicts the wound.
- Dotéit aitire ar ḟer feras in fuil.
- (law) hostage surety who guarantees the performance of an obligation with themselves (as opposed to a ráth, who guarantees it with their property); guarantor
- hostage
Usage notes edit
In later Middle Irish, sense 2 came to be used as masculine.
Mutation edit
Middle Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
aitire | unchanged | n-aitire |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aitire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language