cairdine
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom the root of carae (“friend”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcairdine f
- covenant
- 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. 91b12
- Trén ⁊ mór in chairdine do·rigni⟨s⟩ friu hi tossuch ⁊ cot⟨a⟩·ascrais íarum.
- Strong and great (was) the covenant you sg had made with them at first and you annulled it afterwards.
- 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. 91b12
Declension
editFeminine iā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | cairdineL | cairdiniL | cairdini |
Vocative | cairdineL | cairdiniL | cairdini |
Accusative | cairdiniN | cairdiniL | cairdini |
Genitive | cairdine | cairdineL | cairdineN |
Dative | cairdiniL | cairdinib | cairdinib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
edit- Irish: cairdine
Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
cairdine | chairdine | cairdine pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
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), “cairdine”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language