athargab

Old Irish

Etymology

From aith- +‎ for- +‎ Proto-Celtic *gab- (“taking”).[1]

Noun

athargab m (genitive athargaib)

  1. weapons, arms
    • 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. 64a11
      .i. cen athargubu
      without arms (glossing Latin inermes (“unarmed”))

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative athargab athargabL athargaibL
vocative athargaib athargabL athargubuH
accusative athargabN athargabL athargubuH
genitive athargaibL athargab athargabN
dative athargubL athargabaib athargabaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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

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

References

  1. ^ Stüber, Karin (2015) “athargab”, in Die Verbalabstrakta des Altirischen (in German), volume 1, pages 259-260

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