Old Irish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin senātor.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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senátoir m

  1. (historical) senator
    • 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. 50a25
      senátoir(glosses Latin senātor)

Inflection

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Masculine i-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative senátoir senátoirL senátoraiH
Vocative senátoir senátoirL senátoraiH
Accusative senátoirN senátoirL senátoraiH
Genitive senátoroH, senátoraH senátoroH, senátoraH senátoraeN
Dative senátoirL senátoraib senátoraib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: senatoir

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
senátoir ṡenátoir unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.