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Old Irish
Etymology
From the root of carae (“friend”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cairdine f
- covenant
- 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. 91b12
Trén ⁊ mór in chairdine do·rigni⟨s⟩ friu hi tossuch ⁊ cot⟨a⟩·ascrais íarum.- Strong and great (was) the covenant you sg had made with them at first and you annulled it afterwards.
Declension
Descendants
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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| cairdine
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chairdine
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cairdine
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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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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