cairdine

Old Irish

Etymology

From the root of carae (“friend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkar͈ʲdʲinʲe]

Noun

cairdine f

1. 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. 91^b12

     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.

Declension

Feminine iā-stem
	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: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: cairdine

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cairdine”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language