meinistir
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Latin ministerium.
Noun
editmeinistir f (genitive meinistri, nominative plural meinistri)
- reliquary
- c. 810, Biblical Glosses in the Book Armagh, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 494–98, Ardm. 18a2
- Du·bbert Pátricc cumtach du Fiacc, idon clocc ⁊ menstir ⁊ bachall ⁊ poolire.
- Patrick gave Fiacc a case [containing] a bell, a reliquary, a crozier, and a writing tablet.
- c. 810, Biblical Glosses in the Book Armagh, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 494–98, Ardm. 18a2
Inflection
editFeminine ī-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | meinistirL | meinistirL | meinistriH |
Vocative | meinistirL | meinistirL | meinistriH |
Accusative | meinistriN | meinistirL | meinistriH |
Genitive | meinistreH | meinistreL | meinistreN |
Dative | meinistriL | meinistrib | meinistrib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
edit- Middle Irish: meinistir
Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
meinistir also mmeinistir after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
meinistir pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
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), “meinistir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language