accrann

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

acrann

Etymology

Cognate with Welsh archen (“shoes, footwear”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈakran͈/

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. 5^a5
  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. 56^b1
  air is inunn oín diatét lessom: ind acrnn ⁊ ind chos
  for sandal and foot apply in his opinion to one and the same thing

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	accrann^L	accrainn^L	accranna^H
vocative	accrann^L	accrainn^L	accranna^H
accusative	accrainn^N	accrainn^L	accranna^H
genitive	accrainne^H	accrann^L	accrann^N
dative	accrainn^L	accrannaib	accrannaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of *accrann*
radical	lenition	nasalization
accrann (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-accrann

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “accrann”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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