toimtiu

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Goidelic *toṽ(e)ddiyū, from Proto-Celtic *tomentiyū, verbal noun of *to-manyetor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtoṽʲdʲu]

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. 26b7
      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

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
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.

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