Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *enātro- (guts, bowels), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-h₁-oh₁tro-, from *h₁eh₁tr̥, see also Latin uterus, Old English ǣdre.

Noun

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inathar m

  1. intestines

Descendants

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  • Irish: ionathar

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
inathar
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-inathar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “inathar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language