randatu

Old Irish

Etymology

From rann (“part”) +‎ -tu (“-ness”).

Noun

randatu m (genitive randatad)

1. (grammar) the property of belonging to a part of speech
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 27^a12

     Cia randdatu bis indi?

     Under what part of speech is it?

Inflection

Masculine d-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	randatu	—	—
Vocative	randatu	—	—
Accusative	randatidN	—	—
Genitive	randatad	—	—
Dative	randatidL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
randatu also rrandatu after a proclitic ending in a vowel	randatu pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “randatu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language