tindabrad

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ ind- +‎ Proto-Celtic *subr- +‎ -ad, with the morpheme *subr- ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *swep- (“to sleep”).

Noun

tindabrad m

1. falling asleep

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	tindabrad	—	—
Vocative	tindabrad	—	—
Accusative	tindabradN	—	—
Genitive	*tindbrathoH, *tindbrathaH	—	—
Dative	tindabradL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: tinnabrad
  • Irish: tionnabhradh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
tindabrad	thindabrad	tindabrad pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
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), “tindabrad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language