inathar

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *enātro- (guts, bowels), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-h₁-oh₁tro-, from *h₁eh₁tr̥, see also Latin uterus, Old English ǣdre.

Noun

inathar m

  1. intestines

Descendants

  • Irish: ionathar

Mutation

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

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

References

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