orcun

See also: Orçun

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *orgenā, an unusual double-thematic formation in -e-nā. Two other basic verbal nouns, mlegon (“milking”) (from *mlig-o-nos) and fedan (“carrying”) (from *wed-o-nā) also have double-thematic *-V-no/ā- formations. Their closest parallels are Proto-Germanic *-aną and past participles in *-anaz, in addition to Slavic past passive participles in original -enъ.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈor.ɡun]

Noun

orcun f (genitive oircne)

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	orcun^L	orcuin^L	oircnea^H
Vocative	orcun^L	orcuin^L	oircnea^H
Accusative	orcuin^N	orcuin^L	oircnea^H
Genitive	oircne^H	orcun^L	orcun^N
Dative	orcuin^L	oircnib	oircnib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

Middle Irish: orcan, organ, argan
- Irish: argain

Mutation

Mutation of *orcun*
radical	lenition	nasalization
orcun (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-orcun

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

^ Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, pages 112-113