samthach

Old Irish

Noun

samthach f (genitive samthige)

axhandle
For quotations using this term, see Citations:samthach.

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	samthach^L	samthig^L	samthacha^H
vocative	samthach^L	samthig^L	samthacha^H
accusative	samthig^N	samthig^L	samthacha^H
genitive	samthige^H	samthach^L	samthach^N
dative	samthig^L	samthachaib	samthachaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Descendants

Irish: sáfach
Scottish Gaelic: samhach

Mutation

Mutation of *samthach*
radical	lenition	nasalization
samthach	ṡamthach	samthach

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), “samthach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language