dobríathar
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Old Irish
Etymology
From to- (“to”) + bríathar (“verb”), a calque of Latin adverbium,[1] itself a calque of Ancient Greek ἐπίρρημα (epírrhēma).
Pronunciation
Noun
dobríathar f (genitive dobréithre, nominative plural dobríathra)
- (grammar) adverb
- 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. 216a1
- anmman do·rónta de dobríathraib
- nouns which have been made from adverbs
- 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. 216a1
Inflection
Feminine ā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | dobríatharL | dobréithirL | dobríathraH |
Vocative | dobríatharL | dobréithirL | dobríathraH |
Accusative | dobréithirN | dobréithirL | dobríathraH |
Genitive | dobréithreH | dobríatharL | dobríatharN |
Dative | dobréithirL | dobríathraib | dobríathraib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
- Irish: dobhriathar
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
dobríathar | dobríathar pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ |
ndobríathar |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 832, page 506
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 dobríathar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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