cétaín
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Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From cét- (“first”) + aín (“fasting”), literally “first fast”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cétaín f (genitive cétaíne)
- Wednesday
- 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. 113d3
- .i. dia cétaíne ro·gabad in salm-so.
- i.e. [it was] on a Wednesday that this psalm was sung.
- Trecheng Breth Féne, published in The Triads of Ireland (1906, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, §216
- Trí banláe: lúan, Máirt, cétain.
- Three woman-days: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
- 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. 113d3
Inflection
[edit]Feminine ī-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | cétaínL | cétaínL | cétaíniH |
Vocative | cétaínL | cétaínL | cétaíniH |
Accusative | cétaínN | cétaínL | cétaíniH |
Genitive | cétaíneH | cétaíneL | cétaíneN |
Dative | cétaínL | cétaínib | cétaínib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
cétaín | chétaín | cétaín pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
See also
[edit]- (days of the week) láe sechtmaine; domnach, lúan, Máirt, cétaín, dardaín, aín dídine, Satharn (Category: sga:Days of the week) [edit]
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cétaín”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language