epert

Old Irish

epert f (genitive eperte, nominative plural eperta)

verbal noun of as·beir
saying, utterance
- 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. 136^a10
  a epert ‘cluinte’
  saying ‘hear’
word
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 9^a22 (Wikisource link)
  Cía for·comam-ni ríagoil sen-Gréc hi scríbunt in dá caractar isnaib ɔsonaib ucut, ro·cruthaigsemmar camaiph immurgu óen charactar – ·f· tar hési ·p· co tinfeth – i n‑epertaib Latinṅdaib.
  Although we preserve the rule of the ancient Greeks in writing the two characters in those consonants, we have, however, formed one character – f instead of p with lenition – in Latin words.

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	epert^L	epert^L, ebirt, eipirt, ebert	eperta^H
Vocative	epert^L	epert^L, ebirt, eipirt, ebert	eperta^H
Accusative	epert^N, ebirt, eipirt, ebert	epert^L, ebirt, eipirt, ebert	eperta^H
Genitive	eperte^H, epertae	epert^L	epert^N
Dative	epert^L, ebirt, eipirt, ebert	epertaib	epertaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
epert (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-epert
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.