aiccend

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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin accentus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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. 26a6
      ɔ eperthae cía aiccent ⁊ cisí aimser derb thechtas
      so that it might be said what accent and what certain time it has

Inflection

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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

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  • Irish: aiceann
  • Scottish Gaelic: aicinn

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
aiccend
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-aiccend
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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