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Old Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
airli
- inflection of airle:
- accusative/dative singular
- nominative/vocative/accusative dual/plural
Usage notes
At Wb. 31c7, the phrase nín·tá airli ar mban (“we do not have management of our women”) appears (see airle for the full citation). This construction literally means “there is not to us the management of our women” (a dative of possession), meaning that the nominative airle is expected rather than the accusative airli. This may be a slip of the pen on the part of the scribe, or it may be that the scribe perceived nín·tá as a transitive verb meaning “we do not have” and thus considered airli a direct object.
Mutation
Mutation of airli
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
|
airli
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
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unchanged
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n-airli
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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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