airnaigde

Old Irish

Alternative forms

irnigde (Würzburg glosses)
ernaigde, ernigde (Milan glosses)
aurnaichti, aurnaigti (Monastery of Tallaght)

Etymology

From air- +‎ ni- +‎ guide.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈœr.n̪əɣʲ.ðʲe/
- (Blasse) [ˈœr.n̪ɪɣʲ.ðʲe]
- (Griffith) [ˈœr.n̪ɨɣʲ.ðʲe]

The u-infected allomorph of air- has secondarily intruded here, given the u that appears in modern Gaelic. The -rn- is not palatalized despite the Würzburg glosses often spelling this word with irni.

Noun

airnaigde f

verbal noun of ar·neget: prayer, praying
way to pray, way of praying

For quotations using this term, see Citations:airnaigde.

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	airnigde^L	airnigdi^L	airnigdi
vocative	airnigde^L	airnigdi^L	airnigdi
accusative	airnigdi^N	airnigdi^L	airnigdi
genitive	airnigde	airnigde^L	airnigde^N
dative	airnigdi^L	airnigdib	airnigdib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Middle Irish: aurnaigthe
- Irish: urnaí
- Manx: yeearree
- Scottish Gaelic: ùrnaigh

Mutation

Mutation of *airnaigde*
radical	lenition	nasalization
airnaigde (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	airnaigde	n-airnaigde

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.