dítiu

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdʲiːdʲiu̯]

Noun

dítiu f (genitive díten)

1. verbal noun of do·eim (“to protect”)
   • 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. 67^d14

     Amal rund·gab slíab Sión andes ⁊ antúaid du⟨n⟩ chath⟨raig⟩ dïa dítin, sic rund·gabsat ar ṅdá thoíb du dítin ar n-inmedónach-ni.

     As Mount Sion is located on the south and the north of the city to protect it, so are our two sides there to protect our insides.

Declension

Feminine n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	dítiu	—	—
Vocative	dítiu	—	—
Accusative	dítinN	—	—
Genitive	díten	—	—
Dative	dítinL, dítiuL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• ⇒ Middle Irish: díten m
  • Irish: dídean
  • Scottish Gaelic: dìdean

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dítiu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language