dechellt

Old Irish

Etymology

If the correct reading is déchellt, then probably from dé- (“double”) +‎ celt (“garment”), from ceilid (“to conceal”). However, the much better attested Middle Irish descendant is never written with the acute accent, suggesting that the vowel was always short.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʲexʲel͈t/? /ˈdʲeːxʲel͈t/?

Noun

dechellt m

1. garment
   • 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. 27^b16

     Gaibid immib a n‑étach macc coím-sa, amal nondad maicc coím-a, .i. uiscera is hé in dechellt as·beir.

     Put on this raiment of servants, as you pl are servants, i.e viscera is the garment that he mentions.

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	dechellt	dechelltL	dechilltL
Vocative	dechillt	dechelltL	dechelltuH
Accusative	dechelltN	dechelltL	dechelltuH
Genitive	dechilltL	dechellt	dechelltN
Dative	dechiulltL	dechelltaib	dechelltaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: dechelt

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
dechellt	dechellt pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndechellt
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), “deichelt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language