adgainethar

Old Irish

Etymology

From aith- (“re-”) +‎ gainithir (“to be born”).

Verb

ad·gainethar (prototonic ·aithgainethar, verbal noun aithgin)

1. to be reborn
   • 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. 66^b6

     .i. babtismi .i. ad·gainemmar ni hi Críst

     i.e. of the baptism; i.e. we are born again in Christ. (glossing Latin regenerationis)

2. (law) to restitute

Inflection

Complex, class B II present, a future

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.			ad·gainethar	ad·gainemmar
	prot.			·aithgainethar			·aidgenetar		·adgenedar
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	deut.			ad·gignethar
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		aithgin, aithgein
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of adgainethar

radical	lenition	nasalization
ad·gainethar	ad·gainethar pronounced with /-ɣ(ʲ)-/	ad·ngainethar

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), “ad-gainethar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language