adgainethar

Old Irish

Etymology

From aith- (re-) + gainithir (to be born).

Verb

ad·gainethar (prototonic ·aithgainethar, verbal noun aithgin)

  1. to be reborn
    • 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. 66b6
      .i. babtismi .i. ad·gainemmar ni hi Críst
      i.e. of the baptism; i.e. we are born again in Christ. (glossing Latin regenerationis)
  2. (law) to restitute

Inflection

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
ad·gainethar ad·gainethar
pronounced with /-ɣ(ʲ)-/
ad·ngainethar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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