cethorcho
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *kʷeturkont, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷétwr̥dḱomt.
Pronunciation
[edit]Numeral
[edit]| < 30 | 40 | 50 > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : cethorcho Ordinal : cethramad | ||
cethorcho m (genitive cethorchat)
- forty
- c. 720, Baile Chuinn Chétchathaig from Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10, published in "On the Dates of Two Sources Used in Thurneysen's Heldensage", Ériu 16 (1952), pages 145-156, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen and Gerard Murphy and with translations by Gerard Murphy
- íer cetharchait aidchi
- after forty nights
- c. 720, Baile Chuinn Chétchathaig from Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10, published in "On the Dates of Two Sources Used in Thurneysen's Heldensage", Ériu 16 (1952), pages 145-156, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen and Gerard Murphy and with translations by Gerard Murphy
Inflection
[edit]| Masculine nt-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | cethorcho | cethorchuitL | cethorchuit |
| Vocative | cethorcho | cethorchuitL | cethorchota |
| Accusative | cethorchuitN | cethorchuitL | cethorchota |
| Genitive | cethorchat | cethorchatL | cethorchatN |
| Dative | cethorchuitL | cethorchotaib | cethorchotaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
[edit]- Middle Irish: cethracha
- Irish: ceathracha
Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| cethorcho | chethorcho | cethorcho 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.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cethracha”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 326, page 208; reprinted 2017