goiste
Old Irish
editPronunciation
editNoun
editgoiste m (genitive goisti, nominative plural goisti)
- 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
- Hó 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”)
- 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
Declension
editMasculine io-stem | |||
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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:
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Descendants
edit- Irish: gaiste
Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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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. |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 goiste”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language