airnaide

Old Irish

Etymology

From ar- +‎ ni- +‎ suide.

Noun

airnaide n

1. verbal noun of ar·neät: waiting
   • c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 7, pages 115-179:

     Bui alaili caildech doim oc ernaide Duiblittri isind faichti do guide do-som con·atallad hillis callech.

     There was a certain poor old woman waiting for Dublitir in the field, praying for him to let her sleep in the nuns’ hostel.

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	airnaideN	—	—
Vocative	airnaideN	—	—
Accusative	airnaideN	—	—
Genitive	airnaidiL	—	—
Dative	airnaidiuL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of airnaide

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

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