athramail
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]athramail
- fatherly, paternal, fatherlike
- 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. 9a14
- Bed a{d}thramli .i. gaibid comarbus for n-athar et intamlid a béssu.
- Be pl fatherlike, i.e. take your father’s heritage and imitate his manners
- 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. 9a14
Declension
[edit]| i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | athramail | athramail | athramail |
| Vocative | athramail | ||
| Accusative | athramail | athramail | |
| Genitive | athramail | athramlae | athramail |
| Dative | athramail | athramail | athramail |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | athramlai | athramlai | |
| Vocative | athramlai | ||
| Accusative | athramlai | ||
| Genitive | athramail* athramlae | ||
| Dative | athramlaib | ||
| Notes | *not when substantivized | ||
Descendants
[edit]- Middle Irish: aithremail
Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| athramail (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-athramail |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aithremail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language