dían
See also: Appendix:Variations of "dian"
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Celtic *dēnos, from Proto-Indo-European *deyh₁- (“fly, move swiftly”); compare Ancient Greek δίεμαι (díemai, “hasten”), Sanskrit दीयति (dī́yati, “fly”).[1]
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editdían (equative dénithir, comparative déniu)
- swift, rapid, quick
- 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. 112b12
- Is déniu ad·ciam húa ṡúlib risíu ro·cloammar in fogur húa chluasaib, ut est is toísigiu ad·ciam teilciud in béla resíu ro·cloammar a guth sidi.
- We see more quickly with the eyes before we hear the sound with the ears, ut est we see the throwing of the axe sooner before we hear the sound of this.
- 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. 112b12
- sudden, hasty
- impetuous, vehement, violent
Declension
edito/ā-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | dían | dían | dían |
Vocative | déin* dían** | ||
Accusative | dían | déin | |
Genitive | déin | déine | déin |
Dative | dían | déin | dían |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | déin | díana | |
Vocative | díanu díana† | ||
Accusative | díanu díana† | ||
Genitive | dían | ||
Dative | díanaib | ||
Notes | *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative |
Descendants
editMutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
dían | dían pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ |
ndían |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*dēno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 95
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 dían”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *deyh₁-
- Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish adjectives
- Old Irish terms with quotations
- Old Irish o/ā-stem adjectives