oifrend

Old Irish

Etymology

From Latin offerenda.

Noun

oifrend m (genitive oifrind)

1. (Christianity) Mass

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	oifrend	oifrendL	oifrindL
Vocative	oifrind	oifrendL	oifrenduH
Accusative	oifrendN	oifrendL	oifrenduH
Genitive	oifrindL	oifrend	oifrendN
Dative	oifriundL	oifrendaib	oifrendaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: Aifreann
• Scottish Gaelic: Aifreann

Mutation

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

Further reading

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