acrae

See also: Acrae

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• acre

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *adgaryom, a formation from *ad- +‎ *gary- (“to call”) +‎ *-om (verbal noun-forming suffix). Cognate with Gaulish adgarion.

By surface analysis, ad- +‎ -gaire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaɡrɘ]

Noun

acrae n (genitive acrai, nominative plural acrae)

1. verbal noun of ad·gair
2. legal action, process

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	acraeN	acraeL	acraeL
Vocative	acraeN	acraeL	acraeL
Accusative	acraeN	acraeL	acraeL
Genitive	acraiL	acraeL	acraeN
Dative	acruL	acraib	acraib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: acra
  • Irish: agra

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
acrae (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-acrae
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), “acrae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language