Old Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

Pronoun edit

diib

  1. third-person plural dative of di
    • 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. 11a4
      Rethit huili, et is oínḟer gaibes búaid diib inna chomalnad.
      All run, and it is one man of them who gets victory for completing it (lit. in its completion).
    • 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. 20d4
      Cía ru·bé cen ní diib, ní·rubai cenaib huli.
      Though he might be without some of them, he could not be without all of them.

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
diib diib
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/
ndiib
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.