eirr

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *en-rets, from the stem of *reteti (“to run”) with the prefix in-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [er͈ʲ]

Noun

eirr (gender unknown)

1. a chariot-fighter

Inflection

Masculine t-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	eirr	eirridL, eirr	eirrid
vocative	eirr	eirridL, eirr	eirreda
accusative	eirridN	eirridL, eirr	eirreda
genitive	eirred	eirred	eirredN
dative	eirridL	eirredaib	eirredaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: err

Mutation

Mutation of eirr

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

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