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Old Irish
Etymology
From neph- (“un-, non-”) + con·gaib (“to contain”) + -tu (abstract noun suffix); a calque of Latin incontinentia.
Pronunciation
Noun
nebchongabthetu f (genitive nebchongabthetad)
- (hapax) incontinence (lack of self-restraint)
- 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. 9d24
arna dich cách assa dligud i n-adaltras tri láthar demuin et tri bar nebcongabthetit-si- lest everyone go out of his duty into adultery through the Devil’s machination and through your incontinence
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Nasalization
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nebchongabthetu
also nnebchongabthetu after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
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nebchongabthetu
pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/
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unchanged
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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