athramail

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Old Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

athair +‎ -amail

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

athramail

  1. fatherly, paternal, fatherlike
    • 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. 9a14
      Bed a{d}thramli .i. gaibid comarbus for n-athar et intamlid a béssu.
      Be pl fatherlike, i.e. take your father’s heritage and imitate his manners

Declension[edit]

i-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative athramail athramail athramail
Vocative athramail
Accusative athramail athramail
Genitive athramail athramlae athramail
Dative athramail athramail athramail
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative athramlai athramlai
Vocative athramlai
Accusative athramlai
Genitive athramail*
athramlae
Dative athramlaib
Notes *not when substantivized

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle Irish: aithremail

Mutation[edit]

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
athramail unchanged n-athramail
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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