adtreba

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

ad- +‎ treb (household)

Pronunciation

Verb

ad·treba (prototonic ·atreba, verbal noun atrab or aittrebad)

  1. to inhabit, dwell
    • 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. 107a15
      Bid sochaide a·trefea indiuts{i}u ⁊ bid fáilid nach oín adid·trefea.
      There will be many who will dwell in thee, and every one will be joyful who will so dwell.
      (literally, “…who will dwell it”)

Inflection

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: aittrebaid

Mutation

Mutation of adtreba
radical lenition nasalization
ad·treba unchanged unchanged

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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