literda

Middle Irish

Etymology

From liter (“letter”) +‎ -de, from Latin litera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (earlier) /ˈl̠ʲit̠ʲəɾðə/, (later) /ˈl̠ʲit̠ʲəɾɣə/

Adjective

literda

1. literary
2. literal
3. (nominalized, masculine) literary man

Derived terms

• literdacht f (“literature; book-learning”)

Mutation

Mutation of literda

radical	lenition	nasalization
literda also lliterda after a proclitic ending in a vowel	literda pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle 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), “literda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language