tigernae

Old Irish

Etymology

From tigern, from Proto-Celtic *tigernos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtʲiɣʲer͈n͈ɘ]

Noun

tigernae f

1. lord
   • 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. 8^d20

     Is hé didiu in tecttaire maith con·daig indocbáil dia thigerni,

     He is, then, the good messenger who seeks glory for his lord,

   • c. 760 Blathmac mac Con Brettan, published on Twitter (2017; @ChronHib), edited and with translations by David Stifter, stanza 126

     As·oirc cach teglach co lí bassa fora tigernai.

     Every beautiful household claps their hands over their lord.

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	tigernaeL	tigernaiL	tigernai
Vocative	tigernaeL	tigernaiL	tigernai
Accusative	tigernaiN	tigernaiL	tigernai
Genitive	tigernae	tigernaeL	tigernaeN
Dative	tigernaiL	tigernaib	tigernaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Synonyms

• coimdiu
• coimsid
• tríath
• túathach

Descendants

• Middle Irish: tigerna
  • Irish: tiarna
  • Manx: çhiarn
  • Scottish Gaelic: tighearna

Mutation

Mutation of tigernae

radical	lenition	nasalization
tigernae	thigernae	tigernae 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.

Further reading

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