tengae
Appearance
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *tangʷāss (compare Welsh tafod), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tengae f (genitive tengad, nominative plural tengaid)
- tongue
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 31b23
- in bélrai .i. is and atá gním tengad isind huiliu labramar-ni
- of speech, i.e. the action of the tongue is in all that we say
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 31b23
- language
Inflection
[edit]Feminine t-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | tengae | tengaidL, tengae | tengaid |
Vocative | tengae | tengaidL, tengae | tengtha |
Accusative | tengaidN | tengaidL, tengae | tengtha |
Genitive | tengad | tengad | tengadN |
Dative | tengaidL, teng(a) | tengthaib | tengthaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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tengae | thengae | tengae pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tengae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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- Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
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