tróethaid
Old Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably denominative from Old Irish traeth (“neuter”), then originally meaning "to neuter". Maybe related to Middle Irish tríath, tréith (“weak”). tróethaid would represent o-grade Proto-Celtic *troit- to traeth's e-grade *treit-.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tróethaid (verbal noun tróethad)
Conjugation
[edit]Simple, class A I present, s preterite
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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| Present indicative | Abs. | troethaid | |||||||
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| Preterite | Abs. | tróethsus (with suffixed pronoun -us) | |||||||
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| Perfect | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Future | Abs. | ||||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Abs. | ||||||||
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| Verbal noun | tróethad | ||||||||
| Past participle | traetha | ||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| tróethaid | thróethaid | tróethaid 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]- ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1959–96) “traethaid”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume T U, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page T-122
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “traethaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language