Old Irish

edit

Etymology

edit

From aith- +‎ to- +‎ ar- +‎ bert.

Noun

edit

atairbert f

  1. verbal noun of ad·tairbir: bringing back
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 197b15
      .i. atairbert hí forathmet inna persine imme·roraid riam.
      i.e. bringing again into recollection of the person that he has spoken of before.

Inflection

edit
Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative atairbertL
Vocative atairbertL
Accusative atairbirtN
Genitive atairbertaeH
Dative atairbirtL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

edit
Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
atairbert
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-atairbert
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

edit