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Old Irish
Etymology
Cognate with Welsh archen (“shoes, footwear”).
Pronunciation
Noun
accrann f (genitive accrainne, nominative plural accranna)
- sandal, shoe
- 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. 5a5
is hecen sainecoscc leosom for accrannaib innaní prechite pacem- they deem it necessary (to have) a special appearance on the sandals of those that preach pacem
- 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. 56b1
air is inunn oín diatét lessom: ind acr[a]nn ⁊ ind chos- for sandal and foot apply in his opinion to one and the same thing
Inflection
Mutation
Mutation of accrann
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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accrann
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
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unchanged
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n-accrann
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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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