aiccidit

Old Irish

Etymology

From Latin accidentia. Only the grammatical sense is attested in Old Irish; meanings along the lines of “chance occurrence” and “attack of illness” occur later, at least partially under the influence of the French and English meanings.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈakʲiðʲidʲ]

Noun

aiccidit f (genitive aiccidite, nominative plural aicciditi)

(grammar) accident (property attached to a word)

Declension

Feminine ī-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	aiccidit^L	aiccidit^L	aicciditi^H
vocative	aiccidit^L	aiccidit^L	aicciditi^H
accusative	aicciditi^N	aiccidit^L	aicciditi^H
genitive	aiccidite^H	aiccidite^L	aiccidite^N
dative	aicciditi^L	aicciditib	aicciditib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Irish: aicíd
Scottish Gaelic: acaid, aicidhid

Mutation

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

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