irlam

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See also: Irlam

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From ar- +‎ fo- +‎ lám.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈœr͈l͈əβ̃/,

Adjective

irlam (equative erlaimidir, comparative irlamu)

  1. ready
    • 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. 22c10
      Is bés trá dosom anísiu cosc inna mban i tossug et a tabairt fo chumacte a feir, armbat irlamu de ind ḟir fo chumacte Dǽi, co·mbí íarum coscitir ind ḟir et do·airbertar fo réir Dǽ.
      This, then, is a custom of his, to correct the wives at first and to bring them under the power of their husbands, so that the husbands may be the readier under God’s power, so that afterwards the husbands are corrected and bowed down in subjection to God.

Inflection

o/ā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative irlam irlam irlam
Vocative irlaim*
irlam**
Accusative irlam irlaim
Genitive irlaim irlaime irlaim
Dative irlum irlaim irlum
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative irlaim irlama
Vocative irlamu
irlama†
Accusative irlamu
irlama†
Genitive irlam
Dative irlamaib
Notes *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative

**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: urlam

Mutation

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

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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