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Old Irish
Etymology
Seemingly from ad- + ethaid (“to go”), albeit ethaid postdates this compound verb in attestation. They both stem from Proto-Celtic *itos, which also provides the preterite passive stem for téit (“to go”).
Pronunciation
Verb
ad·etha
- to seize, take away
- 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. 48d1
ad·etha ⁊ loscaid cech rét frissa comraic- It attacks and burns everything it touches.
- to get
- Synonym: ad·cota
- c. 760 Blathmac mac Con Brettan, published on Twitter (2017; @ChronHib), edited and with translations by David Stifter, stanza 138
Rom·bet mo théor aicdi lat, a Maire mass muingelnat; at·ethae, a grían na mban, ót mac conid·midethar.- Let me have my three wishes from you, Mary the beautiful bright-necked one: may you get it, sun of all women, from your son who controls it.
Inflection
Complex, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive
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Passive sg.
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ad·etha
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at·ethat
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ad·ethad
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at·ethfat
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at·ethsa (with emphatic suffix -sa)
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at·ethae (with infixed pronoun -t)
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at·etha
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at·ethaid
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att·ethatar
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at·ethad
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at·ethaidís
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Derived terms
Mutation
Mutation of adetha
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nasalization
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ad·etha
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ad·n-etha
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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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