escarae

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Old Irish

Etymology

From ess- (“non-”) +‎ carae (“friend”), literally "non-friend".

Noun

escarae m

  1. enemy
    Synonym: námae
    • 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. 30b27
      .i. cense fri cách, eter carit et escarit
      i.e. gentleness to everyone, both friend and foe

Inflection

Masculine nt-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative escarae escaraitL escarait
Vocative escarae escaraitL escairtea
Accusative escaraitN escaraitL escairtea
Genitive escarat escaratL escaratN
Dative escaraitL escairtib escairtib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: escara

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
escarae
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) 		unchanged n-escarae
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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