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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From ad- +‎ guide.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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aicde f

  1. (law) verbal noun of ad·guid: bond, surety, security
  2. something made or built
  3. material
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 31d10
      .i. amal ní ɔfil ní ara·choat a n-argat nglan acht á techt i n-aicdi, síc comlabrai in choimded, im·folngar gním di suidib fochetoir iarna labrad.
      i.e. as there is nothing that harms pure silver, but it enters into [its] material form, thus [are] the words of the Lord, a deed is effected from them at once after their having been spoken.

Inflection

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Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative aicdeL aicdiL aicdi
Vocative aicdeL aicdiL aicdi
Accusative aicdiN aicdiL aicdi
Genitive aicde aicdeL aicdeN
Dative aicdiL aicdib aicdib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: aicde
    • Irish: aice (habitat)
    • Scottish Gaelic: aice (burrow)

Mutation

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Mutation of aicde
radical lenition nasalization
aicde
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-aicde

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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