deithbir
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editdí- + aithber (“blame, rebuke”) (thus literally ‘blameless’) (see aithis).[1][2][3][4]
The alternative proposal from the same root as Old Irish dead and Welsh diwedd (“end”), is obsolete.[5]
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editdeithbir
- reasonable
- 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. 6a13
- is deidbir ha áigthiu ar is do thabirt díglae berid in claideb sin
- it is reasonable to fear him, for it is to inflict punishment that he bears that sword
- 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. 6a13
Declension
edit| i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | deithbir | deithbir | deithbir |
| Vocative | deithbir | ||
| Accusative | deithbir | deithbir | |
| Genitive | deithbir | deithbire | deithbir |
| Dative | deithbir | deithbir | deithbir |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | deithbiri | deithbiri | |
| Vocative | deithbiri | ||
| Accusative | deithbiri | ||
| Genitive | deithbir* deithbire | ||
| Dative | deithbirib | ||
| Notes | *not when substantivized | ||
Descendants
editMutation
edit| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| deithbir | deithbir pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ |
ndeithbir |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
edit- ^ Sanas Cormaic
- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 219
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 deithbir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1996) “1 deithbir”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume D, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page D-46
- ^ Pedersen, Holger (1909) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume I, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 345.1, page 504