airdbe

Old Irish

Noun

airdbe n (genitive airdbi)

  1. verbal noun of ar·díben: smiting, killing
    • 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. 14a2
      .i. iar n-ardbiu inna banflatha-sin
      i.e. after the destruction of that queen [Athaliah].

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
singular dual plural
nominative airdbeN airdbeL airdbeL
vocative airdbeN airdbeL airdbeL
accusative airdbeN airdbeL airdbeL
genitive airdbiL airdbeL airdbeN
dative airdbiuL airdbib airdbib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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

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

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