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Old Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Celtic *adglādīmā, verbal noun of *ad-glādīti. By surface analysis, ·accald(athar) + -em.
Noun
acaldam f (genitive acaldmae)
- verbal noun of ad·gládathar
- 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. 15a20
Ní foí⟨l⟩sitis déicsin a gnúsa íar mbid dó oc accaldim Dé, oc tindnacul recto dó.- They would not have endured the beholding of his face after he had been conversing with God, at the bestowing of the law to him.
- Act of addressing, conversation, colloquy
Inflection
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
·acaldam
- first-person plural present subjunctive prototonic of ad·gládathar
Mutation
Mutation of acaldam
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lenition |
nasalization
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acaldam
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
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unchanged
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n-acaldam
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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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