Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *toybos, whence also Breton, Cornish, and Welsh tu.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tóeb m (genitive toíb, nominative plural toíb)

  1. side
    • 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. 67d14
      Amal rund·gab slíab Sión andes ⁊ antúaid du⟨n⟩ chath⟨raig⟩ dïa dítin, sic rund·gabsat ar ṅdá thoíb du dítin ar n-inmedónach-ni.
      As Mount Sion is located on the south and the north of the city to protect it, so are our two sides there to protect our insides.

Inflection

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Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative tóeb, toíb tóebL, toíb toíbL
Vocative toíb tóebL, toíb tóebuH
Accusative tóebN, toíb tóebL, toíb tóebuH
Genitive toíbL tóeb, toíb tóebN, toíb
Dative tóebL tóebaib tóebaib
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: taobh
  • Manx: çheu
  • Scottish Gaelic: taobh

Mutation

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

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