Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From ar- +‎ dí- +‎ báidid (to drown).

Verb edit

ar·díbdai

  1. to extinguish, quench
    • 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. 48c33
      indi ar·dibdai .i. is dibdud dun tenid a choscrad ⁊ assreud.
      of him who extinguishes, i.e. its scattering and dispersion is extinction to the fire.

Inflection edit

Mutation edit

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

Further reading edit