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ainder

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Old Irish

FWOTD – 9 January 2016

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *anderā (compare Welsh anner, Cornish annor, Breton annoar, all ‘heifer’).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈan͈ʲdʲər/

Noun

ainder f

married woman, nonvirgin
virgin, maiden

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	ainder^L	aindir^L	aindre^H
vocative	ainder^L	aindir^L	aindre^H
accusative	aindir^N	aindir^L	aindre^H
genitive	aindre^H	ainder^L	ainder^N
dative	aindir^L	aindrib	aindrib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Descendants

Irish: ainnir
Scottish Gaelic: ainnir

Mutation

Mutation of *ainder*
radical	lenition	nasalization
ainder (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-ainder

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

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