See also: taid and täid

Irish

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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táid

  1. (Munster) third-person plural present indicative independent affirmative progressive of

Synonyms

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *tātants, from a participial derivative of an extension of Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (to steal). Cognate to Proto-Slavic *tatь (thief).[1] The nominative singular is irregular, as *tádae would be expected. It is likely that the nominative singular was originally a related abstract/agentive i-stem *tātis (derived with *-tis) that was conflated with the nt-stem and incorporated in its paradigm.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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táid m (genitive tádat)

  1. thief

Inflection

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Masculine nt-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative táid tádaidL tádaid
Vocative táid tádaidL táitea
Accusative tádaidN tádaidL táitea
Genitive tádad tádadL tádadN
Dative tádaidL táitib táitib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: táid

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
táid tháid táid
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*tātant-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 372

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