imdibe

Old Irish

Etymology

From imm- +‎ dí- + the root of benaid, from Proto-Celtic *binati, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to strike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈimʲðʲiβʲe]

Noun

imdibe n (genitive imdibi)

1. verbal noun of imm·díben
2. circumcision
   • 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. 2^c10

     ní dunaib hí fo·daimet a n‑imdibe colnide tantum mani comolnatar a n‑imdibe rúnde uitiorum

     not to those who suffer the carnal circumcision only unless they fulfill the mystical circumcision of vices

   • 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. 18^d9

     .i. a·taat di chétbuid híc: imdibe Tit ɫ. a neb-imdibe […]

     i.e. there are two senses here: the circumcision of Titus or his non-circumcision […]

Declension

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	imdibeN	—	—
Vocative	imdibeN	—	—
Accusative	imdibeN	—	—
Genitive	imdibiL	—	—
Dative	imdibiuL, imdibuL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
imdibe (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-imdibe
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), “imdibe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language