goiste

Irish

Noun

goiste m (genitive singular goiste, nominative plural goistí)

  1. alternative form of coiste (“committee, jury”)

Declension

Declension of goiste (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative goiste goistí
vocative a ghoiste a ghoistí
genitive goiste goistí
dative goiste goistí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an goiste na goistí
genitive an ghoiste na ngoistí
dative leis an ngoiste
don ghoiste 		leis na goistí

Mutation

Mutated forms of goiste
radical lenition eclipsis
goiste ghoiste ngoiste

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡosʲtʲe]

Noun

goiste m (genitive goisti, nominative plural goisti)

  1. noose, halter (rope with a noose, gallows rope)

Declension

Masculine io-stem
singular dual plural
nominative goiste goisteL goistiL
vocative goisti goisteL goistiu
accusative goisteN goisteL goistiuH
genitive goistiL goisteL goisteN
dative goistiuL goistib goistib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Quotations

  • 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. 23b10
    Hó goistiu .i. do·bert goiste imma brágait fadesin ɔid·marb, húare nád ndigni Abisolón a chomairli.
    By a noose, i.e. he put a noose around his own neck so that it killed him, because Absalom did not follow his advice.
    (literally, “do his advice”)

Descendants

  • Irish: gaiste

Mutation

Mutation of goiste
radical lenition nasalization
goiste goiste
pronounced with /ɣ-/		 ngoiste

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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