athramail

Old Irish

Etymology

athair +‎ -amail

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaθraβ̃ɨlʲ/

Adjective

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

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

*not when substantivized

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: aithremail

Mutation

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

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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