bith-
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- bi- (before a slender T)
- bio- (before a broad T)
- bioth- (before a broad vowel or consonant other than T)
Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Irish bith-, from bith (“world, existence”).
Prefix
[edit]bith-
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]
Prefix
[edit]bith-
- (biology) Combining form of beatha (“life”): bio-
Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| bith- | bhith- | mbith- |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bith-”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Old Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- bid- (especially in the Würzburg glosses)
Etymology
[edit]From bith (“world, existence”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Prefix
[edit]bith-
- ever-, constant
- c. 850, Carlsruhe Glosses on St Augustine’s Soliloquia, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. 2, pp. 1–9, Acr. 1a3
- fírinne apostolorum et omnium iustorum bith-ingabál mundo
- the righteousness of the apostles and all just people is a perpetual reproach to the world
- c. 850, Carlsruhe Glosses on St Augustine’s Soliloquia, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. 2, pp. 1–9, Acr. 1a3
Derived terms
[edit]Category Old Irish terms prefixed with bith- not found
Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| bith- | bith- pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ |
mbith- |
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), “1 bith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷeyh₃-
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish lemmas
- Irish prefixes
- ga:Biology
- Irish combining forms
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷeyh₃-
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish prefixes
- Old Irish terms with quotations