tinfed

Maltese

Verb

tinfed

1. inflection of nifed:
   1. second-person singular imperfect
   2. third-person feminine singular imperfect

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• tinfeth, tinphed

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtʲinʲɸʲeð]

Noun

tinfed n

1. verbal noun of do·infet
2. (linguistics) lenition
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 9^a22 (Wikisource link)

     Cía for·comam-ni ríagoil sen-Gréc hi scríbunt in dá caractar isnaib ɔsonaib ucut, ro·cruthaigsemmar camaiph immurgu óen charactar – ·f· tar hési ·p· co tinfeth – i n‑epertaib Latinṅdaib.

     Although we preserve the rule of the ancient Greeks in writing the two charac­ters in those conso­nants, we have, however, formed one character – f instead of p with lenition – in Latin words.

Declension

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	tinfedN	—	—
Vocative	tinfedN	—	—
Accusative	tinfedN	—	—
Genitive	tinfidL	—	—
Dative	tinfedL, tinfiud	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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

Further reading

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