Ériu
Appearance
Middle Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Ériu f
- Ireland
- c. 1000, “The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig”, in Ernst Windisch, editor, Irische Texte, volume 1, published 1800, section 1:
- Ailbe ainm in chon, ocus lan Heriu dia aurdarcus.
- Ailbe was the dog’s name, and Ireland was full of his fame.
- Is í sein int ṡeised bruiden ro·boi i n‑Herind in tan sin […]
- That is one of the six halls that were in Ireland at that time […]
- (literally, “That is the sixth hall that was […] ”)
Declension
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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Ériu | unchanged | nÉriu |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Old Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably, although the É is unexpected and unexplained, from Proto-Celtic *Φīweriyū.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Ériu f
Declension
[edit]Feminine n-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | Ériu | — | — |
Vocative | Ériu | — | — |
Accusative | ÉrinnN | — | — |
Genitive | Érenn | — | — |
Dative | ÉrinnL, ÉriuL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
[edit]- Érennach (“Irish”)
Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
---|---|---|
Ériu (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | nÉriu |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Stüber, Karin (1998) The Historical Morphology of n-Stems in Celtic (Maynooth studies in Celtic linguistics; III), Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, →ISBN, page 95
- ^ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 107
Categories:
- Middle Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Middle Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Middle Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle Irish lemmas
- Middle Irish proper nouns
- Middle Irish feminine nouns
- Middle Irish terms with quotations
- mga:Countries
- mga:Ireland
- mga:Islands
- Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish proper nouns
- Old Irish feminine nouns
- sga:Ireland
- sga:Countries in Europe
- sga:Countries
- sga:Islands
- Old Irish masculine or feminine n-stem nouns
- Old Irish uncountable nouns