molaidir

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *molātor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmoliðʲirʲ/

Verb

molaidir (conjunct ·molathar, verbal noun molad)

  1. to praise
    • 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. 9a22
      Is hed no·molfar.
      It is [this] that I shall praise.
    • 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. 14c18:
      hóre nondob·molor-sa et nom·moídim indibbecause I praise you and boast of you
    • c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 58a
      Bíid didiu a confessio hísin do foísitin pecthae, bíid dano do molad, bíid dano do atlugud buide; do foísitin didiu atá-som sunt.
      That confessio, then, is for confessing sins, it is also for praising, it is also for offering thanks; here, then, it is for confessing

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: molaid
    • Irish: mol
    • Scottish Gaelic: mol

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
molaidir
also mmolaidir after a proclitic
molaidir
pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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