Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *eni- + *togyā- (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (to cover)) + *-tus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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étiud m (genitive unattested)

  1. clothing
    • 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. 10d23
      Mad ar lóg pridcha-sa, .i. ar m’étiuth et mo thoschith, ním·bia fochricc dar hési mo precepte.
      If I preach for pay, that is, for my clothing and my sustenance, I shall not have a reward for my teaching.

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: éted

Mutation

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

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