Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Contains the prefixes ind- +‎ ad- +‎ ro- +‎ uss-.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈin͈dərbe/, [ˈin͈darbɘ]

Noun

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indarbae n

  1. verbal noun of ind·árban: expulsion
    • 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. 19a14
      .i. ciapu dono dún indarpe Geinte in chruth-sin, aris innon-iress nodon·firianigedar?
      i.e. why should we then expel the Gentiles in that manner, for it is the same faith that justifies us?
    • 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. 26b27
      .i. duús indip fochunn ícce doa indarpe a oentu fratrum aris rucce dó.
      i.e. if perchance his expulsion from the unity of the brethren may be cause of salvation to him, for it is a shame to him.

Inflection

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Neuter io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative indarbaeN indarbaeL indarbaeL
Vocative indarbaeN indarbaeL indarbaeL
Accusative indarbaeN indarbaeL indarbaeL
Genitive indarbaiL indarbaeL indarbaeN
Dative indarbuL indarbaib indarbaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: innarba

Mutation

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

References

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  1. ^ Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, page 153

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