apthu
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Old Irish
[edit]Noun
[edit]apthu (gender unknown, genitive apthan)
- verbal noun of at·baill: death
- perdition
- 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. 32c16
- na torthissem i n-apthin fo bés srotha luaith
- that we may not lapse into perdition in the manner of a swift stream
- 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. 32c16
Inflection
[edit]Unknown gender n-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | apthu | apthinL | apthin |
Vocative | apthu | apthinL | apthunaH |
Accusative | apthinN | apthinL | apthunaH |
Genitive | apthan | apthanL | apthanN |
Dative | apthinL, apthuL | apthunaib | apthunaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
apthu (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-apthu |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “apthu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language