Afraicc

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Āfrica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɸrəkʲ/, [ˈaɸrɨkʲ]

Proper noun

Afraicc f

1. Africa (a continent)
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 33^a20

     Africanus: .i. arindí a[d]·treba Afraicc ⁊r.

     [The epithet] Africanus: because he possesses Africa etc.

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	AfraiccL	—	—
Vocative	AfraiccL	—	—
Accusative	AfraiccN	—	—
Genitive	AfraicceH	—	—
Dative	AfraiccL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• Afracdae
• Afraicech

Descendants

• Middle Irish: Afraicc
  • Irish: Afraic
  • Manx: Affrick

Mutation

Mutation of Afraicc

radical	lenition	nasalization
Afraicc (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	nAfraicc

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