adanaig

Old Irish

Etymology

From ad- + aingid (to save).

Verb

ad·anaig (verbal noun adnacul)

  1. to bury
    At·bath-som ⁊ ad·ranacht hi firt.
    He died, and he was buried in a mound.
    • 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. 100c23
      .i. co ad·anastais .i. níɔ·robae nech ad·chotatæ dia n-adnacul.
      So, they should be buried; that is, there was nobody found to bury them.

Inflection

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: adnaicid

Mutation

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

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