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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *ɸeitu, from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“fat, milk”).[1]
Noun
íath m[2]
- land, territory
Inflection
| Masculine u-stem
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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| Nominative
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íath
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íathL
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íathae
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| Vocative
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íath
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íathL
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íathu
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| Accusative
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íathN
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íathL
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íathu
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| Genitive
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íathoH, íathaH
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íatho, íatha
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íathaeN
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| Dative
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íathL
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íathaib
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íathaib
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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íath
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
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unchanged
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n-íath
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*fētu”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 129
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “íath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language