apthu

Old Irish

Noun

apthu (gender unknown, genitive apthan)

  1. verbal noun of at·baill: death
  2. perdition
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 32c16
      na torthissem i n-apthin fo bés srotha luaith
      that we may not lapse into perdition in the manner of a swift stream

Inflection

Unknown gender n-stem
singular dual plural
nominative apthu apthinL apthin
vocative apthu apthinL apthunaH
accusative apthinN apthinL apthunaH
genitive apthan apthanL apthanN
dative apthinL, apthuL apthunaib apthunaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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

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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