Old Irish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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goiste m (genitive goisti, nominative plural goisti)

  1. noose, halter (rope with a noose, gallows rope)
    • 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. 23b10
      goistiu .i. do·bert goiste imma brágait fadesin ɔid·marb, húare nád ndigni Abisolón a chomairli.
      By a noose, i.e. he put a noose around his own neck so that it killed him, because Absalom did not follow his advice.
      (literally, “do his advice”)

Declension

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Masculine io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative goiste goisteL goistiL
Vocative goisti goisteL goistiu
Accusative goisteN goisteL goistiuH
Genitive goistiL goisteL goisteN
Dative goistiuL goistib goistib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Irish: gaiste

Mutation

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

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