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Old Irish
Etymology
From cerc (“hen”) + -dae (adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
Adjective
cercdae
- poultry, fowl (attributive)
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 58b2
- cercdae glosses gallīnācius
Declension
Mutation
Mutation of cercdae
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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| cercdae
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chercdae
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cercdae
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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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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