díliu
See also: diliu
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin dīluvium.[1] The n-stem inflection is analogical.
It was soon conflated with the etymologically unrelated díle, for which compare Old Irish liae and Welsh lliant from *liyants, Welsh dillydd from *dī-exs-liyo-, and Old Irish lín (“multitude”) from *līnom (“flood”), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leyH- (“flow, flood”) (compare Old Church Slavonic лити (liti, “to pour”), Lithuanian líeti).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdíliu f (genitive dílenn or dílend, nominative plural dílinn or dílind)
- flood, deluge
- 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. 62b20
- a n-imbed són ind slóig do·lega na ní téte, fo chosmailius dílenn
- the abundance of the army which destroys whatever it comes to, like a deluge
- 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. 62b20
Declension
editFeminine n-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | díliu | dílinnL, dílind | dílinn |
Vocative | díliu | dílinnL, dílind | dílennaH, dílenda |
Accusative | dílinnN, dílind | dílinnL, dílind | dílennaH, dílenda |
Genitive | dílenn, dílend | dílennL, dílend | dílennN |
Dative | dílinnL, díliuL, díle | dílennaib, dílendaib | dílennaib, dílendaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
editMutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
díliu | díliu pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ |
ndíliu |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Pedersen, Holger (1909) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume I, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 123.5, page 197
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “díliu, díle”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language