escrae

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Old Irish

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Noun

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escrae m (genitive escrai, nominative plural escrai)

  1. large drinking vessel

Inflection

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Masculine io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative escrae escraeL escraiL
Vocative escrai escraeL escru
Accusative escraeN escraeL escruH
Genitive escraiL escraeL escraeN
Dative escruL escraib escraib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: escra

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
escrae
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-escrae
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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