énirte

Old Irish

Etymology

From énirt (“weak”) (from ess- (“non-”) +‎ nert (“strength”)) + -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈeːnir͈(ʲ)t(ʲ)e]

Noun

énirte f

1. weakness
   • 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. 4^a27

     Is and didiu for·téit spiritus ar n-énirti-ni in tain bes n-inun accobor lenn .i. la corp et anim et la spirut.

     So it is then that the spirit helps our weakness when we have the same desire, i.e. body and soul and spirit.

Declension

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	énirteL	—	—
Vocative	énirteL	—	—
Accusative	énirtiN	—	—
Genitive	énirte	—	—
Dative	énirtiL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: éinirte

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
énirte (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-énirte
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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