Old Irish

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Etymology

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béo +‎ -igidir

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbʲeːu̯(i)ɣʲiðʲirʲ/

Verb

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béoigidir (conjunct ·béoigedar, verbal noun béogud)

  1. to give life to, to animate
    • 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. 13d7
      Béoigidir in spirut in corp in fecht so.
      The spirit brings the body to life now.

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Irish: beoigh

Mutation

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

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