airber

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *ɸareborā, a collective derived from the plural of *ɸare- +‎ *bor- (to bear) +‎ *-om (verbal noun suffix).[1]

Noun

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airber f

  1. bundle, armful

Inflection

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Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative airberL airbirL airberaH
Vocative airberL airbirL airberaH
Accusative airbirN airbirL airberaH
Genitive airbireH airberL airberN
Dative airbirL airberaib airberaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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

References

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  1. ^ Uhlich, Jurgen (2002) “Verbal governing compounds (synthetics) in Early Irish and other Celtic languages”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, volume 100, number 3, Wiley, →DOI, →ISSN, page 415

Further reading

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