étiud

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• ǽitiud, étiuth

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *eni- + *togyā- (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“to cover”)) + *-tus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːdʲuð/

Noun

étiud m (genitive unattested)

1. clothing
   • 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. 10^d23

     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.

Descendants

• Middle Irish: éted
  • Irish: éide

Mutation

Mutation of étiud

radical	lenition	nasalization
étiud (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-étiud

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “étiud, éted”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language