deithbir
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- dedbir, deidbir, deithbeir, dethfir, deithfir
Etymology
dí- + aithber (“blame, rebuke”) (thus literally ‘blameless’) (see aithis).[1][2][3][4]
The alternative proposal from the same root as Old Irish dead and Welsh diwedd (“end”), is obsolete.[5]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈdʲeθʲβʲirʲ]
Adjective
deithbir
- reasonable
- 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. 6a13
- is deidbir ha áigthiu ar is do thabirt díglae berid in claideb sin
- it is reasonable to fear him, for it is to inflict punishment that he bears that sword
- 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. 6a13
Declension
| singular | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | deithbir | deithbir | deithbir |
| vocative | deithbir | ||
| accusative | deithbir | deithbir | |
| genitive | deithbir | deithbire | deithbir |
| dative | deithbir | deithbir | deithbir |
| plural | masculine | feminine/neuter | |
| nominative | deithbiri | deithbiri | |
| vocative | deithbiri | ||
| accusative | deithbiri | ||
| genitive | deithbir* deithbire | ||
| dative | deithbirib | ||
*not when substantivized
Descendants
Mutation
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| deithbir | deithbir pronounced with /ðʲ-/ |
ndeithbir |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Sanas Cormaic
- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, page 219; reprinted 2017
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 deithbir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1996) “1 deithbir”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume D, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page D-46
- ^ Pedersen, Holger (1909) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume I, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 345.1, page 504