Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From ar- +‎ dí- +‎ benaid (to strike).

Verb edit

ar·díben (prototonic ·airdben, verbal noun airdbe)

  1. to destroy, slay, slaughter
    • c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-YBL 1089
      Ar·díbi firu i n(i)-áthu []
      He will slay men in fords []
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 30a4
      .i. ni·airdbenglosses Latin non interimit (it does not destroy)

Inflection edit

Mutation edit

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

Further reading edit