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Old Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Āfrica.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Afraicc f
- Africa (a continent)
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 33a20
Africanus: .i. arindí a·treba Afraicc ⁊r.- Africanus: because he possesses Africa etc.
Inflection
| Feminine ā-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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AfraiccL
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—
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—
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| Vocative
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AfraiccL
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—
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—
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| Accusative
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AfraiccN
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—
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| Genitive
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AfraicceH
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| Dative
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AfraiccL
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of Afraicc
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lenition |
nasalization
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Afraicc
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
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unchanged
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nAfraicc
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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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