apgitir

Old Irish

Alternative forms

aibgitir

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin abecedārium.

Noun

apgitir f

alphabet
ABC (fundamentals of any subject)

Inflection

Feminine i-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	apgitir	apgitir^L	apgitri^H
vocative	apgitir	apgitir^L	apgitri^H
accusative	apgitir^N	apgitir^L	apgitri^H
genitive	apgitir^H, apgitir^H	apgitir^H, apgitir^H	apgitre^N
dative	apgitir^L	apgitrib	apgitrib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Middle Irish: aibgitir
- Irish: aibítir

Mutation

Mutation of *apgitir*
radical	lenition	nasalization
apgitir (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	apgitir	n-apgitir

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

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aibgitir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language