cethair
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *kʷetwores, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.
Pronunciation
[edit]Numeral
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| Cardinal : cethair Ordinal : cethramad Male personal : cethrar | ||
cethair (feminine cetheoir)
Inflection
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| Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | cethair | cethéoir, cethéoraH | cethairL | |
| Vocative | ||||
| Accusative | cethriH | cethéoraH | ||
| Genitive | ceithreN | cethéoraN | ceithreN | |
| Dative | ceithrib | cethéoraib | ceithrib | |
| Notes | Initial mutations of a following noun:
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Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
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| cethair | chethair | cethair pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cethair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language