ancretmech

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Old Irish

Etymology

From an- (“un-”) +‎ cretmech (“believing”)

Pronunciation

Adjective

ancretmech

  1. unbelieving
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10a5
      Mainip in chrud so bid anglan for cland, .i. a lliles dind ancretmiuch bid ancretmech.
      Unless it is in this way, your children will be unclean, i.e. whatever follows the unbelieving will be unbelieving.

Declension

o/ā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative ancretmech ancretmech ancretmech
Vocative ancretmig*
ancretmech**
Accusative ancretmech ancretmig
Genitive ancretmig ancretmige ancretmig
Dative ancretmiuch ancretmig ancretmiuch
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative ancretmig ancretmecha
Vocative ancretmechu
ancretmecha†
Accusative ancretmechu
ancretmecha†
Genitive ancretmech
Dative ancretmechaib
Notes *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative

**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

Descendants

  • Irish: ainchreidmheach

Mutation

Mutation of ancretmech
radical lenition nasalization
ancretmech
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) 		unchanged n-ancretmech

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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