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

Mutation of randatu

radical	lenition	nasalization
randatu also rrandatu after a proclitic ending in a vowel	randatu pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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

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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