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Old Irish
Etymology
From úath (“fear, horror, terror”) + -mar (adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
Adjective
úathmar
- dreadful, terrible, terrifying
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 45a6
- huathmar glosses terribile
Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of úathmar
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
|
úathmar
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
|
unchanged
|
n-úathmar
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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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