adgainethar

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Old Irish

Etymology

From aith- (re-) +‎ gainithir (to be born).

Verb

ad·gainethar (prototonic ·aithgainethar, verbal noun aithgin)

  1. to be reborn
    • 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. 66b6
      .i. babtismi .i. ad·gainemmar ni hi Críst
      i.e. of the baptism; i.e. we are born again in Christ. (glossing Latin regenerationis)
  2. (law) to restitute

Inflection

Mutation

Mutation of adgainethar
radical lenition nasalization
ad·gainethar ad·gainethar
pronounced with /-ɣ(ʲ)-/
ad·ngainethar

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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