Old Irish

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Etymology

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From rann (part) +‎ -tu (-ness).

Noun

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randatu m (genitive randatad)

  1. (grammar) the property of belonging to a part of speech
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 27a12
      Cia randdatu bis indi?
      Under what part of speech is it?

Inflection

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Masculine d-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative randatu
Vocative randatu
Accusative randatidN
Genitive randatad
Dative randatidL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
randatu
also rrandatu after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
randatu
pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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References

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