adetha

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • at·etha

Etymology

Seemingly from ad- +‎ ethaid (to go), albeit ethaid postdates this compound verb in attestation. They both stem from Proto-Celtic *itos, which also provides the preterite passive stem for téit (to go).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aðˈeθa/

Verb

ad·etha

  1. to seize, take away
    • 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. 48d1
      ad·etha ⁊ loscaid cech rét frissa comraic
      It attacks and burns everything it touches.
  2. to get
    Synonym: ad·cota
    • c. 760 Blathmac mac Con Brettan, published on Twitter (2017; @ChronHib), edited and with translations by David Stifter, stanza 138
      Rom·bet mo théor aicdi lat, a Maire mass muingelnat; at·ethae, a grían na mban, ót mac conid·midethar.
      Let me have my three wishes from you, Mary the beautiful bright-necked one: may you get it, sun of all women, from your son [Jesus] who controls it.

Inflection

Complex, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. ad·etha at·ethat
prot.
imperfect indicative deut.
prot.
preterite deut. ad·ethad
prot.
perfect deut.
prot.
future deut. at·ethfat
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut. at·ethsa (with emphatic suffix -sa) at·ethae (with infixed pronoun -t) at·etha at·ethaid att·ethatar
prot.
past subjunctive deut. at·ethad at·ethaidís
prot.
imperative
verbal noun
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of ad·etha
radical lenition nasalization
ad·etha
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
ad·etha ad·n-etha

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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