adarc

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Old Irish

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adarc

Etymology

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Unknown; perhaps a loanword from a pre-Celtic substrate source; perhaps cognate with or a borrowing to or from Basque adar.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈaðərk/, [ˈaðark]

Noun

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adarc f (genitive adarcae, nominative plural adarca)

  1. horn (growth on an animal's head)
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 2b16:
      tob di humu fo chosmailius n-adarcae side
      a trumpet of bronze in the shape of a horn
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 63b17:
      nanní fris·oirc doib fa·scannat hua n-adarcaib
      whatever offends them, they toss it with their horns
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 116c8:
      orgain humaidi fo chosmailius n-adarcae
      bronze instruments in the shape of a horn

Inflection

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Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative adarcL adaircL adarcaH
Vocative adarcL adaircL adarcaH
Accusative adaircN adaircL adarcaH
Genitive adarcaeH adarcL adarcN
Dative adaircL adarcaib adarcaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Synonyms

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Descendants

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  • Irish: adharc
  • Manx: eairk
  • Scottish Gaelic: adharc

Mutation

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

References

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  1. ^ R. L. Trask, The History of Basque
  2. ^ Mother Tongue: Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, issue 5 (1999): [Compare] Basque adar 'horn' - Old Irish adarc 'hom': since the latter has no Indo- European etymology, it is probably borrowed from Vasconic *adar-ko 'little horn'.

Further reading

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