Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *andibom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥dʰi-bʰuH-om.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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indeb n (genitive indib)

  1. wealth
    • 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. 28c2
      Ní rïat na dánu díadi ara n-indeb domunde.
      Let them not sell the divine gifts for the worldly wealth.
    • 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. 92a17
      Bed indbadigthi .i. bed chuintechti .i. cid fáilte ad·cot-sa ⁊ du·ngnéu, is túsu immid·ḟolngi dam, a Dǽ; cid indeb dano ad·cot, is tú, Dǽ, immid·ḟolngi dam.
      To be enriched, i.e. to be sought, i.e. though it is joy that I obtain and make, it is you who effects it for me, O God; so too, though it is wealth that I obtain, it is you, God, who effects it for me.

Declension

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Neuter o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative indebN
Vocative indebN
Accusative indebN
Genitive indibL
Dative indiubL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Irish: inneabh, inneamh

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
indeb
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-indeb
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 384.2h Anm., page 39

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