immdíben
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From imm- (“circum-”) + dí- (“de-”) + benaid (“to strike”), in imitation of Latin circumcidō.
Verb edit
imm·díben (verbal noun imdibe)
- to excise
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 143b4
- im·dibenar ― glossing Latin absciditur (“it is excised”)
- 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. 15b9
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 143b4
- to circumcise
- 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. 18d9
- […] aris Tiamthe imme·ruidbed et niro·imdibed Tit.
- […] for it is Timothy who had been circumcised and Titus had not been circumcised.
- 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. 18d9
Inflection edit
Complex, class B IV present
1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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Present indicative | Deut. | im·dibenar | |||||||
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Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
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Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
Prot. | ·imdibed | ||||||||
Perfect | Deut. | imme·ruidbed (relative) | |||||||
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Future | Deut. | ||||||||
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Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
Prot. | imdibthe | ||||||||
Imperative | imdibnem | ||||||||
Verbal noun | imdibe | ||||||||
Past participle | imdibthe | ||||||||
Verbal of necessity |
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
imm·díben | imm·díben pronounced with /-ð(ʲ)-/ |
imm·ndíben |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “imm-díben”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language