etarscarad

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Old Irish

Etymology

From etar·scara +‎ -ad.

Pronunciation

Noun

etarscarad m (genitive etarscartho)

  1. verbal noun of etar·scara
  2. separation
    • 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. 124b6
      Ad·ráigsetar ⁊ robu frithorcun doïb a n-etarscarad fri Ǽgeptacdu .i. air ad·ráigsetar nonda·bértais iterum in captiuitatem.
      They have feared, and their separation from the Egyptians has been an offence to them, i.e. for they have feared that they would carry them back into captivity.

Declension

Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative etarscarad
Vocative etarscarad
Accusative etarscaradN
Genitive etarscarthoH, etarscarthaH
Dative etarscaradL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Verb

·etarscarad

  1. third-person singular imperfect indicative prototonic of etar·scara

Mutation

Mutation of etarscarad
radical lenition nasalization
etarscarad
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-etarscarad

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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