cuitbiud

Old Irish

Etymology

Formed with the suffix -ad.

Noun

cuitbiud m (genitive cuitbeda)

1. verbal noun of con·tib: mockery, ridicule
   • c. 775-850, Cambridge 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. 4-6, 48^a

     no·senditis .i. ba sí a fálte mo chuitbiud.

     They were playing; their welcome was ["it was their pleasure", Lash] to mock me.

   • 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 48

     "A húi Chuind, a Chormaic," ol Carpre, "cate forus cuitbeda la Féine?" "Ni hansa," ol Cormac.

     "O grandson of Conn, Cormac," said Carpre, "what is the code of ridicule among the Irish?" "Not hard [to tell]", said Cormac.

Inflection

Masculine u-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	cuitbiud	—	—
vocative	cuitbiud	—	—
accusative	cuitbiudN	—	—
genitive	cuitbedoH, cuitbedaH	—	—
dative	cuitbiudL	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of cuitbiud

radical	lenition	nasalization
cuitbiud	chuitbiud	cuitbiud pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

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), “cuitbiud”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language