aiccend

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• aiccent

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin accentus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈakʲen͈d]

Noun

aiccend m (genitive aiccind, nominative plural aiccind)

1. (grammar) accent
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 26^a6

     ɔ eperthae cía aiccent ⁊ cisí aimser derb thechtas

     so that it might be said what accent and what certain time it has

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	aiccend	aiccendL	aiccindL
Vocative	aiccind	aiccendL	aiccenduH
Accusative	aiccendN	aiccendL	aiccenduH
Genitive	aiccindL	aiccend	aiccendN
Dative	aiccendL	aiccendaib	aiccendaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: aiceann
• Scottish Gaelic: aicinn

Mutation

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

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “aiccend”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language