cercdae
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom cerc (“hen”) + -dae (adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editcercdae
- poultry, fowl (attributive)
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 58b2
- cercdae glosses gallīnācius
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 58b2
Declension
editio/iā-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | cercdae | cercdae | cercdae |
Vocative | cercdai | ||
Accusative | cercdae | cercdai | |
Genitive | cercdai | cercdae | cercdai |
Dative | cercdu | cercdai | cercdu |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | cercdai | cercdai | |
Vocative | cercdai cercdu* | ||
Accusative | cercdai cercdu* | ||
Genitive | cercdae | ||
Dative | cercdaib | ||
Notes | * when substantivized |
Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
cercdae | chercdae | cercdae 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), “cercdae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language