adaltras
Appearance
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From adaltair (“adulterer”) (from Latin adulter) + -as
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]adaltras m (genitive adaltrais or adaltrasa)
- adultery
- 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. 3c12:
- ní adaltras dúib
- it is not adultery for you
- 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. 9d24
- arna dich cách assa dligud i n-adaltras tri láthar demuin et tri bar nebcongabthetit-si
- lest everyone go out of his duty into adultery through the Devil’s machination and through your incontinence
- 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. 3c12:
Inflection
[edit]Masculine u-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | adaltras | adaltrasL | adaltrasaeH, adaltrasa |
Vocative | adaltras | adaltrasL | adaltrasu |
Accusative | adaltrasN | adaltrasL | adaltrasu |
Genitive | adaltrasoH, adaltrasaH | adaltrasoL, adaltrasaL | adaltrasaeN, adaltrasaN |
Dative | adaltrasL | adaltrasaib | adaltrasaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
[edit]- Irish: adhaltras
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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adaltras (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-adaltras |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adaltras”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language