cethorcho
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
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Numeral edit
| < 30 | 40 | 50 > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : cethorcho Ordinal : cethramad | ||
cethorcho m
- forty
- c. 720, Baile Chuinn Chétchathaig from Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10, published in "On the Dates of Two Sources Used in Thurneysen's Heldensage", Ériu 16 (1952), pages 145-156, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen and Gerard Murphy and with translations by Gerard Murphy
- íer cetharchait aidchi
- after forty nights
- c. 720, Baile Chuinn Chétchathaig from Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10, published in "On the Dates of Two Sources Used in Thurneysen's Heldensage", Ériu 16 (1952), pages 145-156, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen and Gerard Murphy and with translations by Gerard Murphy
Inflection edit
| Masculine nt-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | cethorcho | cethorchaitL | cethorchait |
| Vocative | cethorcho | cethorchaitL | cethorchata |
| Accusative | cethorchaitN | cethorchaitL | cethorchata |
| Genitive | cethorchat | cethorchatL | cethorchatN |
| Dative | cethorchaitL | cethorchataib | cethorchataib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants edit
- Middle Irish: cethracha
- Irish: ceathracha
References edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cethracha”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language