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Old Irish
Etymology
From aith- (“re-”) + gainithir (“to be born”).
Verb
ad·gainethar (prototonic ·aithgainethar, verbal noun aithgin)
- 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)
- (law) to restitute
Inflection
Complex, class B II present, a future
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Passive sg.
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Present indicative
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ad·gainethar
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ad·gainemmar
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·aithgainethar
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·aidgenetar
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·adgenedar
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Preterite
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Future
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ad·gignethar
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Conditional
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Present subjunctive
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Verbal noun
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aithgin, aithgein
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Past participle
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Verbal of necessity
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Mutation
Mutation of adgainethar
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ad·gainethar
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ad·gainethar pronounced with /-ɣ(ʲ)-/
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ad·ngainethar
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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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