noíbaid

Old Irish

Etymology

From noíb +‎ -aid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈn͈oːi̯βɨðʲ]

Verb

noíbaid (prototonic ·nóeba)

1. to sanctify, to hallow, to consecrate
   • 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^c4

     Cain ro·noíbad Abracham tri hiris? In tree ǽm didiu fa nacc?

     Hasn’t Abraham been sanctified through faith? Through it then indeed or not?

   • 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. 13^b19

     Is súaichnid, manid·chretid esséirge Críst et mortuorum, níb·noíbfea for n-ires in chruth sin et níb·scara fri bar pecthu.

     It is obvious, unless you pl believe in the resurrection of Christ and the dead, your faith will not sanctify you in that way and does not separate you from your sins.

Inflection

Simple, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	abs.
	conj.
	rel.			noíbas
imperfect indicative
preterite	abs.
	conj.			·noíb				·noíbad
	rel.
perfect	deut.			ro·noíb				ro·noíbad
	prot.
future	abs.
	conj.			·noíbfea
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.			·nóeba
	rel.
past subjunctive
imperative
verbal noun		noíbad
past participle		noíbthe
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• níb·noíbfea

Descendants

• Middle Irish: náemaid
  • Irish: naomh (verb)

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “noíbaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language