Abracham

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • Abarcham, Abrám, Abráim, Abaráim

Etymology

From Late Latin Abraham, from Koine Greek Ἀβραάμ (Abraám), from Biblical Hebrew אַבְרָהָם (aḇrāhām). The genitive Abrache is borrowed directly from the Latin genitive Abrahae.

Proper noun

Abracham m (genitive Abracham or Abrache)

  1. Abraham (biblical figure)
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19c20
      Má nudub·feil i n‑ellug coirp Críst, adib cland Abrache amal ṡodin, et it sib ata chomarpi Abracham.
      If you pl are in the union of the body of Christ, you are Abraham’s children in that case, and it is you who are Abraham’s heirs.

Mutation

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