Afraicc

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Āfrica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɸrəkʲ/, [ˈaɸrɨkʲ]

Proper noun

Afraicc f

1. Africa (a continent)
   • 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. 33^a20

     Africanus: .i. arindí a[d]·treba Afraicc ⁊r.

     [The epithet] Africanus: because he possesses Africa etc.

Derived terms

• Afracdae
• Afraicech

Descendants

• Middle Irish: Afraicc
  • Irish: Afraic
  • Manx: Affrick

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
Afraicc (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	nAfraicc
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), “Afraicc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language