apaig
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *ad- + the root of *bungeti (“to reap”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]apaig
- ripe (ready for reaping or gathering)
Declension
[edit]| singular | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | apaig | apaig | apaig |
| vocative | apaig | ||
| accusative | apaig | apaig | |
| genitive | apaig | aipche | apaig |
| dative | apaig | apaig | apaig |
| plural | masculine | feminine/neuter | |
| nominative | aipchi | aipchi | |
| vocative | aipchi | ||
| accusative | aipchi | ||
| genitive | apaig* aipche | ||
| dative | aipchib | ||
*not when substantivized
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| apaig (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-apaig |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 149, page 92; reprinted 2017
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “apaig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language