Old Irish

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Etymology

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Prefixed with to- +‎ íarm- +‎ fo- +‎ uss-. See timthirecht for the origin of the -racht.

Noun

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tíarmóracht f

  1. verbal noun of do·íarmórat: following
    • 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. 40c1
      Airis gnáth lassar hi tiarmoracht diad.
      For a flame is usual following smoke.

Inflection

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Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative tíarmórachtL
Vocative tíarmórachtL
Accusative tíarmórachtN
Genitive tíarmórachtaeH
Dative tíarmórachtL
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
tíarmóracht thíarmóracht tíarmóracht
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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