etargne

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • etarcnae, etarcne, ætarcne, etargn, etargna, etargnæ, etergne

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈedarɡne/

Noun

etargne n (genitive etargni, nominative plural etargne)

  1. verbal noun of etar·gnin
  2. knowledge, understanding
    • 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. 12c32
      Acht nammáa is samlid is torbe són, co eter·certa a n‑as·bera et con·rucca i n‑ætarcne cáich.
      But it is only thus that this is a profit, that he may interpret what he says and bring it into everyone’s understanding.

Declension

Neuter io-stem
singular dual plural
nominative etargneN etargneL etargneL
vocative etargneN etargneL etargneL
accusative etargneN etargneL etargneL
genitive etargniL etargneL etargneN
dative etargnuL etargnib etargnib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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

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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