cercdae
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From cerc (“hen”) + -dae (adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cercdae
- poultry, fowl (attributive)
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 58b2
- cercdae glosses gallīnācius
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 58b2
Declension
[edit]| io/iā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | cercdae | cercdae | cercdae |
| Vocative | cercdai | ||
| Accusative | cercdae | cercdai | |
| Genitive | cercdai | cercdae | cercdai |
| Dative | cercdu | cercdai | cercdu |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | cercdai | cercdai | |
| Vocative | cercdai cercdu* | ||
| Accusative | cercdai cercdu* | ||
| Genitive | cercdae | ||
| Dative | cercdaib | ||
| Notes | * when substantivized | ||
Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| cercdae | chercdae | cercdae pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
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), “cercdae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language