nebchongabthetu

Old Irish

Etymology

From neph- (“un-, non-”) +‎ con·gaib (“to contain”) +‎ -tu (abstract noun suffix); a calque of Latin incontinentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈn͈ʲeβxonɣaβʲθʲedu]

Noun

nebchongabthetu f (genitive nebchongabthetad)

1. (hapax) incontinence (lack of self-restraint)
   • 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. 9^d24

     arna dich cách assa dligud i n-adaltras tri láthar demuin et tri bar nebcongabthetit-si

     lest everyone go out of his duty into adultery through the Devil’s machination and through your incontinence

Declension

Feminine t-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	nebchongabthetu	—	—
Vocative	nebchongabthetu	—	—
Accusative	nebchongabthetaidN, nebcongabthetit	—	—
Genitive	nebchongabthetad	—	—
Dative	nebchongabthetaidL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
nebchongabthetu also nnebchongabthetu after a proclitic ending in a vowel	nebchongabthetu pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/	unchanged
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), “1 nem-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language