áirge

See also: airge

Old Irish

Etymology

From árach, verbal noun of ad·rig (“to tie, bind”), + -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaːrʲɣʲe]

Noun

áirge f (genitive áirge)

1. a place for milking cows

Declension

Feminine iā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	áirgeL	áirgiL	áirgi
vocative	áirgeL	áirgiL	áirgi
accusative	áirgiN	áirgiL	áirgi
genitive	áirge	áirgeL	áirgeN
dative	áirgiL	áirgib	áirgib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Descendants

• Irish: áirí
• Scottish Gaelic: àirigh
• → Faroese: ærgi
• → Old Norse: erg

Mutation

Mutation of áirge

radical	lenition	nasalization
áirge (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-áirge

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), “áirge”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language