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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *enātro- (“guts, bowels”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-h₁-oh₁tro-, from *h₁eh₁tr̥, see also Latin uterus, Old English ǣdre.
Noun
inathar m
- intestines
Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of inathar
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
|
inathar
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
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unchanged
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n-inathar
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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.
References
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “inathar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language