apthu

Old Irish

Noun

apthu (gender unknown, genitive apthan)

1. verbal noun of at·baill: death
2. perdition
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 32^c16

     na torthissem i n-apthin fo bés srotha luaith

     that we may not lapse into perdition in the manner of a swift stream

Inflection

Unknown gender n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	apthu	apthinL	apthin
Vocative	apthu	apthinL	apthunaH
Accusative	apthinN	apthinL	apthunaH
Genitive	apthan	apthanL	apthanN
Dative	apthinL, apthuL	apthunaib	apthunaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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