adaltras

Old Irish

Etymology

adaltair (“adulterer”) (from Latin adulter) +‎ -as

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaðal͈tras/

Noun

adaltras m (genitive adaltrais or adaltrasa)

1. adultery
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 3^c12:

     ní adaltras dúib

     it is not adultery for you

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 9^d24:

     arna dich cách assadligud inadaltras trilathar demuin et tribarnebcongabthetitsi

     lest every one go out of his duty into adultery through the Devil’s influence and through your incontinence

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	adaltras	adaltrasL	adaltraisL
Vocative	adaltrais	adaltrasL	adaltrasuH
Accusative	adaltrasN	adaltrasL	adaltrasuH
Genitive	adaltraisL	adaltras	adaltrasN
Dative	adaltrasL	adaltrasaib	adaltrasaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	adaltras	adaltrasL	adaltrasaeH, adaltrasa
Vocative	adaltras	adaltrasL	adaltrasu
Accusative	adaltrasN	adaltrasL	adaltrasu
Genitive	adaltrasoH, adaltrasaH	adaltrasoL, adaltrasaL	adaltrasaeN, adaltrasaN
Dative	adaltrasL	adaltrasaib	adaltrasaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: adhaltras

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
adaltras (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-adaltras
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adaltras”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language