Afraicc
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈafrəkʲ/
Proper noun
Afraicc f
- Africa (a continent)
- 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. 33a20
- Africanus: .i. arindí a[d]·treba Afraicc ⁊r.
- [The epithet] Africanus: because he possesses Africa etc.
- 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. 33a20
Derived terms
- Afracdae
- Afraicech
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| Afraicc | unchanged | nAfraicc |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “Afraicc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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