ceithern
Middle Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish ceithern (“band of soldiers”), borrowed from Latin quaterniō (“group of four soldiers”).
Noun
editceithern f (genitive ceithirne)
Derived terms
edit- ceithernach (“member or leader of a ceithern”)
- Irish: ceithearnach
Descendants
edit- Irish: ceithearn
- Manx: kern
- Scottish Gaelic: ceatharn, ceatharna
- → Middle English: kerne
- English: kern
Mutation
editMiddle Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
ceithern | cheithern | ceithern pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ceithern”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “ceithern”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page ceithern