rígain
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *rīganī.
Noun edit
rígain f
- queen
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 65d13
- .i. co n-eperthae as comdiu dia rígain in rí.
- And it should be said that the king is a master to his queen.
- c. 808, Félire Oengusso, Prologue, line 105; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:
- Hirúath cona rígain, las·rort co lín ilach; nír at·gab, réim calad, talam na nem ninach.
- [King] Herod [the Great] with his queen, along with whom he was slain to much rejoicing; neither the earth nor the heavenly heavens received him (a rather rough fate!).
- c. 808, Félire Oengusso, July 11; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:
- La martrai rígnae, Eufemiae slógdae; Benedicht, balc ágae, macc cráibdech Con-lógae.
- With the martyrdom of the queen, Euphemia the hostful, [is also commemorated] Benedict, a strong pillar and devout son of Cú Lógae.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 65d13
Inflection edit
| Feminine ī-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | rígainL | rígainL | rígnaiH |
| Vocative | rígainL | rígainL | rígnaiH |
| Accusative | rígnaiN | rígainL | rígnaiH |
| Genitive | rígnaeH | rígnaeL | rígnaeN |
| Dative | rígnaiL | rígnaib | rígnaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Coordinate terms edit
- rí (“king”)
Descendants edit
- Middle Irish: rígan
Mutation edit
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| rígain also rrígain after a proclitic |
rígain pronounced with /r(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), “rígan, rígain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language