Old Irish

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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déde n

  1. two things
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14c23
      co beid .i. co mbed a ndéde sin im labrad-sa .i. gáu et fír .i. combad sain a n‑as·berin ó bélib et aní imme·rádin ó chridiu
      so that there may be, i.e. so that those two things might be in my speaking, namely false and true, i.e. so that what I might say with [my] mouth and what I might think with [my] heart might be different

Declension

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Neuter io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative dédeN
Vocative dédeN
Accusative dédeN
Genitive dédiL
Dative dédiuL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
déde déde
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/
ndéde
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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