athargab

Old Irish

Etymology

From aith- +‎ for- +‎ Proto-Celtic *gab- (“taking”).

Noun

athargab m (genitive athargaib)

1. weapons, arms
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 64^a11

     .i. cen athargubu

     without arms (glossing Latin inermes (“unarmed”))

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	athargab	athargabL	athargaibL
Vocative	athargaib	athargabL	athargubuH
Accusative	athargabN	athargabL	athargubuH
Genitive	athargaibL	athargab	athargabN
Dative	athargubL	athargabaib	athargabaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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