Old Irish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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etargne n (genitive etargni, nominative plural etargne)

  1. verbal noun of etar·gnin
  2. knowledge, understanding
    • 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. 12c32
      Acht nammáa is samlid is torbe són, co eter·certa a n‑as·bera et con·rucca i n‑ætarcne cáich.
      But it is only thus that this is a profit, that he may interpret what he says and bring it into everyone’s understanding.

Declension

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Neuter io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative etargneN etargneL etargneL
Vocative etargneN etargneL etargneL
Accusative etargneN etargneL etargneL
Genitive etargniL etargneL etargneN
Dative etargnuL etargnib etargnib
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
etargne
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-etargne
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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