tigernae

Old Irish

Etymology

From tigern, from Proto-Celtic *tigernos.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈtʲiɣʲer͈n͈ɘ]

Noun

tigernae f

lord
- 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. 8^d20
  Is hé didiu in tecttaire maith con·daig indocbáil dia thigerni,
  He is, then, the good messenger who seeks glory for his lord,
- c. 760 Blathmac mac Con Brettan, published on Twitter (2017; @ChronHib), edited and with translations by David Stifter, stanza 126
  As·oirc cach teglach co lí bassa fora tigernai.
  Every beautiful household claps their hands over their lord.

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	tigernae^L	tigernai^L	tigernai
vocative	tigernae^L	tigernai^L	tigernai
accusative	tigernai^N	tigernai^L	tigernai
genitive	tigernae	tigernae^L	tigernae^N
dative	tigernai^L	tigernaib	tigernaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Synonyms

coimdiu
coimsid
tríath
túathach

Descendants

Middle Irish: tigerna
- Irish: tiarna
- Manx: çhiarn
- Scottish Gaelic: tighearna

Mutation

Mutation of *tigernae*
radical	lenition	nasalization
tigernae	thigernae	tigernae pronounced with /dʲ-/

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

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tigernae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language