cercdae
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Old Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From cerc (“hen”) + -dae (adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
cercdae
- poultry, fowl (attributive)
- 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. 58b2
- cercdae glosses gallīnācius
- 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. 58b2
Declension[edit]
| io/iā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | cercdae | cercdae | cercdae |
| Vocative | cercdai | ||
| Accusative | cercdae | cercdai | |
| Genitive | cercdai | cercdae | cercdai |
| Dative | cercdu | cercdai | cercdu |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | cercdai | cercdai | |
| Vocative | cercdai cercdu* | ||
| Accusative | cercdai cercdu* | ||
| Genitive | cercdae | ||
| Dative | cercdaib | ||
| Notes | * when substantivized | ||
Mutation[edit]
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| cercdae | chercdae | cercdae pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading[edit]
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cercdae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language