nebchongabthetu
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From neph- (“un-, non-”) + con·gaib (“to contain”) + -tu (abstract noun suffix); a calque of Latin incontinentia.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nebchongabthetu f (genitive nebchongabthetad)
- (hapax) incontinence (lack of self-restraint)
- 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. 9d24
- arna dich cách assa dligud i n-adaltras tri láthar demuin et tri bar nebcongabthetit-si
- lest everyone go out of his duty into adultery through the Devil’s machination and through your incontinence
- 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. 9d24
Declension edit
Feminine t-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | nebchongabthetu | — | — |
Vocative | nebchongabthetu | — | — |
Accusative | nebchongabthetaidN, nebcongabthetit | — | — |
Genitive | nebchongabthetad | — | — |
Dative | nebchongabthetaidL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
nebchongabthetu also nnebchongabthetu after a proclitic |
nebchongabthetu pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 nem-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language