deithbir
Old Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
dí- + aithber (“blame, rebuke”) (thus literally ‘blameless’) (see aithis).[1][2][3][4]
The alternative proposal from the same root as Old Irish dead and Welsh diwedd (“end”), is obsolete.[5]
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
deithbir
- reasonable
- 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. 6a13
- is deidbir ha áigthiu ar is do thabirt díglae berid in claideb sin
- it is reasonable to fear him, for it is to inflict punishment that he bears that sword
- 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. 6a13
Declension edit
| i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | deithbir | deithbir | deithbir |
| Vocative | deithbir | ||
| Accusative | deithbir | deithbir | |
| Genitive | deithbir | deithbire | deithbir |
| Dative | deithbir | deithbir | deithbir |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | deithbiri | deithbiri | |
| Vocative | deithbiri | ||
| Accusative | deithbiri | ||
| Genitive | deithbir* deithbire | ||
| Dative | deithbirib | ||
| Notes | *not when substantivized | ||
Descendants edit
Mutation edit
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| deithbir | deithbir pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ |
ndeithbir |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References edit
- ^ Sanas Cormaic
- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 219
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 deithbir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1996) “1 deithbir”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume D, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page D-46
- ^ Pedersen, Holger (1909) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume I, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 504