contibi
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]con·tibi (verbal noun cuitbiud)
- to laugh at, to make fun of, to mock, to ridicule
- c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-I 2948
- Mellgléo Iliach-sin úai[re] condid·n-atib in slóg.
- This [is called] "The Humorous Fight of Iliach" because the army laughed at him.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 17a3
- c. 850-900, Trecheng Breth Féne, published in The Triads of Ireland (1906, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, §82
- Trí buirb in betha: óc con·tibi sen, slán con·tibi galarach, gáeth con·tibi báeth.
- Three rude ones of this world: a youngster mocking an old man, a heathy person mocking an invalid, [and] a wise man mocking a fool.
- Tecosca Cormaic, published in Tecosca Cormaic. The Instructions of King Cormaic Mac Airt (1909, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, page 17
- ní·cuitbinn sen ciarba óc,
- I did not deride old people although I was young,
- c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-I 2948
Inflection
[edit]Complex, class A II present, s preterite, f future
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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| Present indicative | Deut. | con·tibu | con·tibi | ||||||
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| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | ·cuitbinn | ||||||||
| Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Perfect | Deut. | cot·n-aitib (with infixed pronoun t-) | ɔ·aittibset | ||||||
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| Future | Deut. | con·tifea | |||||||
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| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Verbal noun | cuitbiud | ||||||||
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Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| con·tibi | con·thibi | con·tibi pronounced with /-d(ʲ)-/ |
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), “contibi”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language