epeltu
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- apaltu
Noun
epeltu f
- verbal noun of at·baill: death
- 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. 4d20
- Ba uisse hirnaigde erru, ba liach a n-épeltu.
- Proper was prayer for them, piteous was their perishing.
- 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. 98c6
- .i. is huilliu in trocaire do·rigeni dia indate inpecthai do·rogabsat-som air ro·boi du meit a pecthae-som combu uisse a n-epeltu i n-oin-[f]echt; ní ed immurgu du·rigni dia aní-sin.
- i.e. the mercy that God has exercised is greater than the sins that they had committed, for it followed from the greatness of their sins that their dying at one time would have been just; it is not that, however, that God has done.
- 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. 4d20
Inflection
| Feminine n-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | epeltu | — | — |
| Vocative | epeltu | — | — |
| Accusative | epeltainN | — | — |
| Genitive | epeltan | — | — |
| Dative | epeltainL, epeltuL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| epeltu | unchanged | n-epeltu |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “epeltu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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