toimtiu

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tomantiyū (“thinking”) (verbal noun of *to-manyetor (“to think”)), from *to- +‎ *mantiyū. The latter is from Proto-Indo-European *mn̥-ti-Hon-, which is a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *men-ti-s (“though, mind”). toimtiu is an exact cognate of Latin mentiō (“a mention”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtoβ̃ʲdʲu]

Noun

toimtiu f (genitive toimten)

1. verbal noun of do·muinethar
2. opinion
   • 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. 26^b7

     De dliguth trá inna n-il-toimdden sin, is de gaibthi “igitur”; quasi dixisset “Ní fail ní nád taí mo dligeth-sa fair i ndegaid na comroircnech.”

     Of the law then, of those many opinions, it is thereof that he recites “igitur”; as if he had said, “There is nothing which my law does not touch upon after the erroneous ones.

Declension

Feminine n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	toimtiu	toimtinL	toimtin
Vocative	toimtiu	toimtinL	toimtenaH
Accusative	toimtinN	toimtinL	toimtenaH
Genitive	toimten, toimdden	toimtenL, toimdden	toimtenN, toimddenN
Dative	toimtinL, toimtiuL	toimtenaib	toimtenaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: toimhde (“presumption”)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
toimtiu	thoimtiu	toimtiu 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), “toimtiu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language