deac
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Celtic *dekam-kʷe (literally “and ten”), with loss of the first k by dissimilation.[1]
Numeral
editdeäc
Usage notes
editWhen modifying a noun to indicate an amount between 11 and 19, deac follows the noun while its accompanying numeral simultaneously precedes the noun.
Quotations
edit- 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. 16c10
- cóic bliadni deäc ― fifteen years (literally, “five years -teen”)
Descendants
editMutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
deäc | deäc pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ |
ndeäc |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Schrijver, Peter (1993) “Varia IV. OIr. dëec, dëac”, in Ériu, volume 44, pages 181–84
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “deec”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language