áitt
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Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *yāntī, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂- (“to ride, travel”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]áitt f
- place, situation, position; dwelling, abode
- passage (in a book)
- place formerly occupied by someone or something
Inflection
[edit]Feminine ā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | áittL | áittL | áitteH |
Vocative | áittL | áittL | áitteH |
Accusative | áittN | áittL | áitteH |
Genitive | áitteH | áittL | áittN |
Dative | áittL | áttaib | áttaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
áitt (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-áitt |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*yantī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 433-434
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áitt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *yeh₂-
- Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish nouns
- Old Irish feminine nouns
- Old Irish ā-stem nouns