áirge

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See also: airge

Old Irish

Etymology

From árach, verbal noun of ad·rig (“to tie, bind”), + -e.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):

Noun

áirge f (genitive áirge)

a place for milking cows

Declension

Feminine iā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	áirge^L	áirgi^L	áirgi
vocative	áirge^L	áirgi^L	áirgi
accusative	áirgi^N	áirgi^L	áirgi
genitive	áirge	áirge^L	áirge^N
dative	áirgi^L	áirgib	áirgib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Descendants

Irish: áirí
Scottish Gaelic: àirigh
→ Faroese: ærgi
→ Old Norse: erg

Mutation

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

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), “áirge”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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