áigthiu

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the root of ad·ágathar (Proto-Celtic *āgetor, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂ógʰe (“to be upset, afraid”), from *h₂egʰ-) + -thiu (from Proto-Celtic *-tiyū, *-tion- from Proto-Indo-European *-ti-Hō; cognate with Latin -tiō).

Pronunciation

Noun

áigthiu f

  1. verbal noun of ad·ágathar (“to fear”)
    • 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. 6a13
      is deidbir ha áigthiu ar is do thabirt díglae berid in claideb sin
      it is reasonable to fear him, for it is to inflict punishment that he bears that sword

Inflection

Feminine n-stem
singular dual plural
nominative áigthiu — —
vocative áigthiu — —
accusative aichthinN — —
genitive aichthen — —
dative aichthinL, áigthiuL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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

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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