Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈœrβaːɣ/, [ˈirβaːɣ]

Noun

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irbág f

  1. verbal noun of ar·báigi
    • 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. 16d8
      Bíuu-sa oc irbáig dar far cenn-si fri Maccidóndu.
      I am boasting about you to the Macedonians.
  2. contention, strife
    • 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. 7d10
      Do·adbadar sund trá causa pro qua scripta est æpistola .i. irbága ro·bátar leosom eter desciplu et debe; óentu immurgu eter a magistru.
      Here, then is shown the reason for which the epistle was written, i.e. they had had contentions and disagreements between the disciples; unity, however, among their masters.

Inflection

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Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative irbágL irbáigL irbágaH
Vocative irbágL irbáigL irbágaH
Accusative irbáigN irbáigL irbágaH
Genitive irbáigeH irbágL irbágN
Dative irbáigL irbágaib irbágaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Irish: urbhágh

Mutation

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

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