tigernae
Old Irish
Etymology
From tigern, from Proto-Celtic *tigernos.
Noun
tigernae f
- lord
- 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. 8d20
- Is hé didiu in tecttaire maith con·daig indocbáil dia thigerni,
- He is, then, the good messenger who seeks glory for his lord,
- c. 760 Blathmac mac Con Brettan, published on Twitter (2017; @ChronHib), edited and with translations by David Stifter, stanza 126
- As·oirc cach teglach co lí bassa fora tigernai.
- Every beautiful household claps their hands over their lord.
- 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. 8d20
Inflection
| Feminine iā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | tigernaeL | tigernaiL | tigernai |
| Vocative | tigernaeL | tigernaiL | tigernai |
| Accusative | tigernaiN | tigernaiL | tigernai |
| Genitive | tigernae | tigernaeL | tigernaeN |
| Dative | tigernaiL | tigernaib | tigernaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| tigernae | thigernae | tigernae pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/ |
| 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), “tigernae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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