epert

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • ebert, aipert

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈebʲert/

Noun

epert f (genitive eperte, nominative plural eperta)

  1. verbal noun of as·beir
  2. saying, utterance
    • 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. 136a10
      a epert ‘cluinte’
      saying ‘hear’

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative epertL epertL, ebirt, eipirt, eberert epertaH
Vocative epertL epertL, ebirt, eipirt, eberert epertaH
Accusative epertN, ebirt, eipirt, eberert epertL, ebirt, eipirt, eberert epertaH
Genitive eperteH, epertae epertL epertN
Dative epertL, ebirt, eipirt, eberert epertaib epertaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: abairt

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
epert unchanged n-epert
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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