ernaid

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Old Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Celtic *ɸarnati, from Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἔπορον (époron, give, grant), Sanskrit पृणाति (pṛṇā́ti, grant, bestow), Latin parō (prepare).

Several proposals have been made attempting to derive the perfect ro·ír from a reduplicated preterite *ɸeɸore. Many sound laws proposed to transform *ɸeɸore to ·ír run into a major counterexample in nïad (of a nephew, gen. sg. < *neɸotos, featuring the same *eɸo sequence). Nikolaev (2010) more convincingly reconstructs *ɸīrat (3sg.), derived from a Narten-ablaut imperfect.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

ernaid (verbal noun rath)

  1. to bestow, to grant

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ernaid.

Inflection[edit]

Mutation[edit]

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

References[edit]

  1. ^ Nikolaev, Alexander (2010). "Old Irish ro-ír and other í-preterites." Paper presented at the 30th Harvard Celtic Colloquium on 8 October 2010.

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