análfadach
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom anál (“breathing, breath”).
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Pronunciation
editNoun
editanálfadach f
- breath (as something unpleasant and oppressive)
- act of breathing heavily, stertorous breathing, panting
Inflection
edit| Feminine ā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | análfadachL | — | — |
| Vocative | análfadachL | — | — |
| Accusative | análfadaigN | — | — |
| Genitive | análfadaigeH | — | — |
| Dative | análfadaigL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
edit| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| análfadach (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-análfadach |
| 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), “análfadach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language