aiccend

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• aiccent

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin accentus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈakʲen͈d]

Noun

aiccend m (genitive aiccind, nominative plural aiccind)

1. (grammar) accent
   • 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. 26^a6

     ɔ eperthae cía aiccent ⁊ cisí aimser derb thechtas

     so that it might be said what accent and what certain time it has

Inflection

Masculine o-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	aiccend	aiccendL	aiccindL
vocative	aiccind	aiccendL	aiccenduH
accusative	aiccendN	aiccendL	aiccenduH
genitive	aiccindL	aiccend	aiccendN
dative	aiccendL	aiccendaib	aiccendaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: aiceann
• Scottish Gaelic: aicinn

Mutation

Mutation of aiccend

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

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