accrann

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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Cognate with Welsh archen (shoes, footwear).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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accrann f (genitive accrainne, nominative plural accranna)

  1. sandal, shoe
    • 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. 5a5
      is hecen sainecoscc leosom for accrannaib innaní prechite pacem
      they deem it necessary (to have) a special appearance on the sandals of those that preach pacem
    • 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. 56b1
      air is inunn oín diatét lessom: ind acr[a]nn ⁊ ind chos
      for sandal and foot apply in his opinion to one and the same thing

Inflection

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Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative accrannL accrainnL accrannaH
Vocative accrannL accrainnL accrannaH
Accusative accrainnN accrainnL accrannaH
Genitive accrainneH accrannL accrannN
Dative accrainnL accrannaib accrannaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
accrann
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-accrann
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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