Old Irish

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Etymology

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com- +‎ dí- +‎ saigid

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [kon͈ʲˈdʲi.eɣʲ]

Verb

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con·dïeig (verbal noun cuingid or cuindchid)

  1. to seek
  2. to ask for, demand

Inflection

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Quotations

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  • 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. 14d38
    cuingem lóg ar precepte.
    We do not ask for any payment for our preaching.
  • 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. 92a17
    Bed indbadigthi .i. bed chuintechti .i. cid fáilte ad·cot-sa ⁊ du·ngnéu, is túsu immid·folngi dam, a Dǽ; cid indeb dano ad·cot, is tú, Dǽ, immid·folngi dam.
    To be enriched, i.e. to be sought, i.e. though it is joy that I obtain and make, it is you who effects it for me, O God; so too, though it is wealth that I obtain, it is you, God, who effects it for me.

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:condieig.

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: con·daig

Mutation

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

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