adaltras
Old Irish
Etymology
adaltair (“adulterer”) (from Latin adulter) + -as
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaðal͈tras/
Noun
adaltras m
- adultery
- 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. 3c12:
- ní adaltras dúib
- it is not adultery for you
- 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. 9d24:
- arna dich cách assadligud inadaltras trilathar demuin et tribarnebcongabthetitsi
- lest every one go out of his duty into adultery through the Devil’s influence and through your incontinence
- 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. 3c12:
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Irish: adhaltras
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| adaltras | unchanged | n-adaltras |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- “adaltras” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.