áitt
Appearance
See also: aitt
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *yāntī, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂- (“to ride, travel”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]áitt f
- place, situation, position; dwelling, abode
- passage (in a book)
- place formerly occupied by someone or something
Inflection
[edit]singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | áittL | áittL | áitteH |
vocative | áittL | áittL | áitteH |
accusative | áittN | áittL | áitteH |
genitive | áitteH | áittL | áittN |
dative | áittL | áttaib | áttaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
---|---|---|
áitt (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-áitt |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*yantī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 433-434
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áitt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *yeh₂-
- 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 nouns
- Old Irish feminine nouns
- Old Irish ā-stem nouns