Old Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From to- +‎ uss- +‎ saig- +‎ -id.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

toschith f

  1. sustenance, food
    • 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. 10d23
      Mad ar lóg pridcha-sa, .i. ar m’étiuth et mo thoschith, ním·bia fochricc dar hési mo precepte.
      If I preach for pay, that is, for my clothing and my sustenance, I shall not have a reward for my teaching.

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Irish: taiscidh

Mutation edit

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

Further reading edit