etarscarad

Old Irish

Etymology

From etar·scara +‎ -ad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈedarskarað]

Noun

etarscarad m (genitive etarscartho)

1. verbal noun of etar·scara
2. separation [+ fri (object) = from]
   • 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. 124^b6

     Ad·ráigsetar ⁊ robu frithorcun doïb a n-etarscarad fri Ǽgeptacdu .i. air ad·ráigsetar nonda·bértais iterum in captiuitatem.

     They have feared, and their separation from the Egyptians has been an offence to them, i.e. for they have feared that they would carry them back into captivity.

Declension

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	etarscarad	—	—
Vocative	etarscarad	—	—
Accusative	etarscaradN	—	—
Genitive	etarscarthoH, etarscarthaH	—	—
Dative	etarscaradL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Verb

·etarscarad

1. third-person singular imperfect indicative prototonic of etar·scara

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
etarscarad	unchanged	n-etarscarad
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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