nertad

Old Irish[edit]

nertad m (genitive nerta, nominative plural nertae)

verbal noun of nertaid
a strengthening
- 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. 10^c21
  Ba torad sa⟨í⟩thir dúun in chrud so ce du·melmis cech túari et ce du·gnemmis a ndu·gníat ar céli, act ní bad nertad na mbráithre et frescsiu fochricce as móo.
  It would be a fruit of labor for us in this way if we consumed every food and if we did what our fellows do, but it would not be a strengthening of the brothers and a hope of a greater reward.
exhortation, urging
- 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. 53^b27
  Foilsigidir són ⁊ do·adbat nertad coitchen do chách .i. ara·ngé cách Día amal dund·rigni-som ⁊ rond·cechladar […]
  He reveals this and shows a common exhortation to everyone, i.e. that everyone should pray to God as he did, and that he will hear him […]

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	nertad	nertad^L	nertae
Vocative	nertad	nertad^L	nertu
Accusative	nertad^N	nertad^L	nertu
Genitive	nerto^H, nerta^H	nerto, nerta	nertae^N
Dative	nertad^L	nertaib	nertaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

nertad

·nertad

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
nertad also nnertad after a proclitic	nertad pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.