athramail

Old Irish

Etymology

athair +‎ -amail

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaθraβ̃ɨlʲ/

Adjective

athramail

1. fatherly, paternal, fatherlike
   • 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. 9^a14

     Bed a{d}thramli .i. gaibid comarbus for n-athar et intamlid a béssu.

     Be pl fatherlike, i.e. take your father’s heritage and imitate his manners

Declension

i-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	athramail	athramail	athramail
Vocative	athramail
Accusative	athramail	athramail
Genitive	athramail	athramlae	athramail
Dative	athramail	athramail	athramail
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	athramlai	athramlai
Vocative	athramlai
Accusative	athramlai
Genitive	athramail* athramlae
Dative	athramlaib
Notes	*not when substantivized

Descendants

• Middle Irish: aithremail
  • Irish: aithriúil
  • Manx: ayroil
  • Scottish Gaelic: athaireil

Mutation

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