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Old Irish
Etymology
From énirt (“weak”) (from ess- (“non-”) + nert (“strength”)) + -e.
Pronunciation
Noun
énirte f
- weakness
- 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. 4a27
Is and didiu for·téit spiritus ar n-énirti-ni in tain bes n-inun accobor lenn .i. la corp et anim et la spirut.- So it is then that the spirit helps our weakness when we have the same desire, i.e. body and soul and spirit.
Declension
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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énirteL
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| Vocative
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énirteL
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| Accusative
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énirtiN
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| Genitive
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énirte
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| Dative
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énirtiL
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of énirte
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lenition |
nasalization
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énirte
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
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unchanged
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n-énirte
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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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