Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

ét (jealousy) +‎ -igidir

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈeːdiɣʲiðʲirʲ]

Verb edit

étaigidir

  1. to emulate, envy, be jealous of
    • 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. 56b31
      Cía techtid nach aile ní ad·chobrai-siu ⁊ ní techtai-siu ón immurgu, ní étaigther-su immanísin, .i. ní ascnae ⁊ ní charae; is sí indala ch[í]all les isindí as emulari in sin.
      Though another may possess what you may desire and you do however not possess, you should not be jealous of that thing, i.e. you should not seek after and love it; that is one of the two meanings that he finds in emulari.
    • 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. 56b39
      Ad·n‑amraigther .i. no·n‑étaigther .i. ad·cosnae són nó no·carae
      that you sg may admire, i.e. that you may emulate i.e. that you may strive after or love

Conjugation edit

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
étaigidir unchanged n-étaigidir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit