cethorcho

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kʷeturkont, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷétwr̥dḱomt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʲeθorxo]

Numeral

Old Irish cardinal numbers

<  30	40	50  >
Cardinal : cethorcho     Ordinal : cethramad

cethorcho m (genitive cethorchat)

1. forty
   • c. 720, Baile Chuinn Chétchathaig from Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10, published in "On the Dates of Two Sources Used in Thurneysen's Heldensage", Ériu 16 (1952), pages 145-156, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen and Gerard Murphy and with translations by Gerard Murphy

     íer cetharchait aidchi

     after forty nights

Inflection

Masculine nt-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	cethorcho	cethorchuitL	cethorchuit
vocative	cethorcho	cethorchuitL	cethorchota
accusative	cethorchuitN	cethorchuitL	cethorchota
genitive	cethorchat	cethorchatL	cethorchatN
dative	cethorchuitL	cethorchotaib	cethorchotaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Descendants

• Middle Irish: cethracha
  • Irish: ceathracha

Mutation

Mutation of cethorcho

radical	lenition	nasalization
cethorcho	chethorcho	cethorcho pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cethracha”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 326, page 208; reprinted 2017