tairmthechtas

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Old Irish

Etymology

From tairmthecht +‎ -as.

Pronunciation

Noun

tairmthechtas m (genitive tairmthecthais)

  1. transition
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 220a10
      A·tá tairmthechtas persan híc .i. is sain indí asid·rubart ⁊ indí frisa n-érbrath.
      There is a transition of persons here, i.e. the person who has said it and the person to whom it has been said are different.

Declension

Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative tairmthechtas
Vocative tairmthechtais
Accusative tairmthechtasN
Genitive tairmthechtaisL
Dative tairmthechtusL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
tairmthechtas thairmthechtas tairmthechtas
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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