etargne
Old Irish
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editNoun
editetargne n (genitive etargni, nominative plural etargne)
- verbal noun of etar·gnin
- 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.
- 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
Declension
editNeuter io-stem | |||
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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:
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Mutation
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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. |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “etargne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language