aithgin

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• aithgein

Etymology

From aith- +‎ gein.

Noun

aithgin n

1. verbal noun of ad·gainethar
   1. rebirth
      • c. 808, Félire Oengusso, Epilogue line 240; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:

        Ba hed aithgin mbetha.

        It was the rebirth of the world.

   2. restitution

Inflection

Neuter n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	aithginN	aithginN	aithginenL
Vocative	aithginN	aithginN	aithginenL
Accusative	aithginN	aithginN	aithginenL
Genitive	aithgine	aithginenN	aithginenN
Dative	aithginimL	aithginenaib	aithginenaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: aithgein
  • Irish: athghin

Mutation

Mutation of aithgin

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

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