airegdae

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• airechdae, airegde

Etymology

aire +‎ -dae

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈarʲeɣðe/

Adjective

airegdae (comparative airegdu)

1. excellent, eminent
   • 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. 18^d14

     Ní airegdu a persan-som ol·daas persan na n‑abstal olchene, ceto thoísegu i n‑iriss.

     Their persons are not more eminent than the persons of the rest of the apostles, though they are prior in faith.

     (literally, “Their person is not … than the person of …”)

Declension

io/iā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	airegdae	airegdae	airegdae
Vocative	airegdai
Accusative	airegdae	airegdai
Genitive	airegdai	airegdae	airegdai
Dative	airegdu	airegdai	airegdu
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	airegdai	airegdai
Vocative	airegdai airegdu*
Accusative	airegdai airegdu*
Genitive	airegdae
Dative	airegdaib
Notes	* when substantivized

Descendants

• Irish: aireaghdha

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airegda (-ae)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language