cethorcho

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kʷeturkont, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷétwr̥dḱomt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʲeθorxo]

Numeral

Old Irish cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : cethorcho     Ordinal : cethramad

cethorcho m (genitive cethorchat)

1. forty
   • c. 720, Baile Chuinn Chétchathaig from Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10, published in "On the Dates of Two Sources Used in Thurneysen's Heldensage", Ériu 16 (1952), pages 145-156, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen and Gerard Murphy and with translations by Gerard Murphy

     íer cetharchait aidchi

     after forty nights

Inflection

Masculine nt-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	cethorcho	cethorchuitL	cethorchuit
Vocative	cethorcho	cethorchuitL	cethorchota
Accusative	cethorchuitN	cethorchuitL	cethorchota
Genitive	cethorchat	cethorchatL	cethorchatN
Dative	cethorchuitL	cethorchotaib	cethorchotaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: cethracha
  • Irish: ceathracha

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cethorcho	chethorcho	cethorcho pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cethracha”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 326, page 208