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Old Irish
Etymology
If the correct reading is déchellt, then probably from dé- (“double”) + celt (“garment”), from ceilid (“to conceal”). However, the much better attested Middle Irish descendant is never written with the acute accent, suggesting that the vowel was always short.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdʲexʲel͈t/? /ˈdʲeːxʲel͈t/?
Noun
dechellt m
- garment
- 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. 27b16
Gaibid immib a n‑étach macc coím-sa, amal nondad maicc coím-a, .i. uiscera is hé in dechellt as·beir.- Put on this raiment of servants, as you pl are servants, i.e viscera is the garment that he mentions.
Declension
Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of dechellt
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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| dechellt
|
dechellt
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/
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ndechellt
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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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