íath

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ɸeitu, from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“fat, milk”).[1]

Noun

íath m[2]

  1. land, territory

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
singular dual plural
nominative íath íathL íathae
vocative íath íathL íathu
accusative íathN íathL íathu
genitive íathoH, íathaH íatho, íatha íathaeN
dative íathL íathaib íathaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of íath
radical lenition nasalization
íath
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)		 íath n-íath

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*fētu”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 129
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “íath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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