adaltras

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Old Irish

Etymology

From adaltair (“adulterer”) (from Latin adulter) +‎ -as

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):

Noun

adaltras m (genitive adaltrais or adaltrasa)

adultery
- 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. 3^c12:
  ní adaltras dúib
  it is not adultery for you
- 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. 9^d24
  arna dich cách assa dligud i n-adaltras tri láthar demuin et tri bar nebcongabthetit-si
  lest everyone go out of his duty into adultery through the Devil’s machination and through your incontinence

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	adaltras	adaltras^L	adaltrasae^H, adaltrasa
Vocative	adaltras	adaltras^L	adaltrasu
Accusative	adaltras^N	adaltras^L	adaltrasu
Genitive	adaltraso^H, adaltrasa^H	adaltraso^L, adaltrasa^L	adaltrasae^N, adaltrasa^N
Dative	adaltras^L	adaltrasaib	adaltrasaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Irish: adhaltras

Mutation

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

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

Further reading

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

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