adaltras

Old Irish

Etymology

From adaltair (“adulterer”) (from Latin adulter) +‎ -as

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈaðal͈tras]

Noun

adaltras m (genitive adaltrais or adaltrasa)

adultery
- 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. 3^c12:
  ní adaltras dúib
  it is not adultery for you
- 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. 9^d24
  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

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	adaltras	adaltras^L	adaltrasae^H, adaltrasa
Vocative	adaltras	adaltras^L	adaltrasu
Accusative	adaltras^N	adaltras^L	adaltrasu
Genitive	adaltraso^H, adaltrasa^H	adaltraso^L, adaltrasa^L	adaltrasae^N, adaltrasa^N
Dative	adaltras^L	adaltrasaib	adaltrasaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Irish: adhaltras

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
adaltras	unchanged	n-adaltras
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), “adaltras”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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