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Old Irish
Etymology
athair + -amail
Pronunciation
Adjective
athramail
- fatherly, paternal, fatherlike
- 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. 9a14
Bed a{d}thramli .i. gaibid comarbus for n-athar et intamlid a béssu.- Be pl fatherlike, i.e. take your father’s heritage and imitate his manners
Declension
| i-stem
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| Singular
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Masculine
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Feminine
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Neuter
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| Nominative
|
athramail
|
athramail
|
athramail
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| Vocative
|
athramail
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| Accusative
|
athramail
|
athramail
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| Genitive
|
athramail
|
athramlae
|
athramail
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| Dative
|
athramail
|
athramail
|
athramail
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| Plural
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Masculine
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Feminine/neuter
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| Nominative
|
athramlai
|
athramlai
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| Vocative
|
athramlai
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| Accusative
|
athramlai
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| Genitive
|
athramail*
athramlae
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| Dative
|
athramlaib
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| Notes
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*not when substantivized
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Descendants
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
|
athramail
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
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unchanged
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n-athramail
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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