Laitindae

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• Laitianta, Laitinde, Laitinnda, Latianda, Latinda, Latindae, Latinde, Latinṅda

Etymology

From Laiten +‎ -dae.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈl͈adʲin͈dɘ]

Adjective

Laitindae

1. Latin (pertaining to the Latin language)
   • 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. 9^a22 (Wikisource link)

     Cía for·comam-ni ríagoil sen-Gréc hi scríbunt in dá caractar isnaib ɔsonaib ucut, ro·cruthaigsemmar camaiph immurgu óen charactar – ·f· tar hési ·p· co tinfeth – i n‑epertaib Latinṅdaib.

     Although we preserve the rule of the ancient Greeks in writing the two charac­ters in those conso­nants, we have, however, formed one character – f instead of p with lenition – in Latin words.

Declension

io/iā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	Laitindae	Laitindae	Laitindae
Vocative	Laitindai
Accusative	Laitindae	Laitindai
Genitive	Laitindai	Laitindae	Laitindai
Dative	Laitindu	Laitindai	Laitindu
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	Laitindai	Laitindai
Vocative	Laitindai Laitindu*
Accusative	Laitindai Laitindu*
Genitive	Laitindae
Dative	Laitindaib
Notes	* when substantivized

Mutation

Mutation of Laitindae

radical	lenition	nasalization
Laitindae also Llaitindae after a proclitic ending in a vowel	Laitindae pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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