abstanit
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin abstinentia.
Noun
[edit]abstanit f
- abstinence
- 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. 6b17
- .i. níbí sain-láa la suidib, act is abstanit doib semper.
- i.e. they are not wont to have a particular day, but it is abstinence for them always.
- 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. 6c13
- .i. lobrigthir á abstanit.
- i.e. his abstinence is weakened.
- c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 18, pages 115-179:
- Ní·fil ní do·gné dune dar cend indtí ad·bail nad cobair dó, etir figill ⁊ abstanit ⁊ gabail n-ecnairci ⁊ almsanae ⁊ bendachtae menci.
- There is nothing that a man does on behalf of one that dies that does not help him, whether it be vigil or abstinence, or reciting intercessory prayers or almsgiving, or frequent benediction.
- 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. 6b17
Inflection
[edit]| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | abstanitL | — | — |
| vocative | abstanitL | — | — |
| accusative | abstanitN | — | — |
| genitive | abstaniteH | — | — |
| dative | abstanitL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
Descendants
[edit]- Irish: abstanaid
Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| abstanit (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-abstanit |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “abstanit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language