labraithir

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • labrithir

Etymology

From labar + -aid.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈl͈avriθʲirʲ/

Verb

labraithir (verbal noun labrad)

  1. to speak, to say
    • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 159a2
      Air in tan no·labrither in cétni persin ƚ in tánaisi do·adbit ainm hi suidiu.
      For when you say the first person or the second, you show a noun in this.

Inflection

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
labraithir
also llabraithir after a proclitic
labraithir
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/
labraithir
also llabraithir after a proclitic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • labraithir” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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