accrann

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• acrann

Etymology

Cognate with Welsh archen (“shoes, footwear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈakran͈/

Noun

accrann f (genitive accrainne, nominative plural accranna)

1. sandal, shoe
   • 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. 5^a5

     is hecen sainecoscc leosom for accrannaib innaní prechite pacem

     they deem it necessary (to have) a special appearance on the sandals of those that preach pacem

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 56^b1

     air is inunn oín diatét lessom: ind acr[a]nn ⁊ ind chos

     for sandal and foot apply in his opinion to one and the same thing

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	accrannL	accrainnL	accrannaH
Vocative	accrannL	accrainnL	accrannaH
Accusative	accrainnN	accrainnL	accrannaH
Genitive	accrainneH	accrannL	accrannN
Dative	accrainnL	accrannaib	accrannaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of accrann

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

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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