díbirciud

Old Irish

Etymology

From dí- +‎ -bairg- +‎ -ad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.βʲərʲ.ɡʲuð/, [ˈdiːβʲirʲɡʲuð]

Noun

díbirciud m

1. verbal noun of do·bidci: pelting
   • 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. 58^c6

     .i. Ioab. Ba fercach-som fri suide intan as·mbert side, "tiag-sa ɔ·tall a chenn dind aithuch labar fil oc du dibirciud-su ⁊ oc du chaned."

     [David] was angry at [Joab] when [Joab] said, "let me go to take off the head of the arrogant vassal who is pelting and slandering you."

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	díbirciud	—	—
Vocative	díbirciud	—	—
Accusative	díbirciudN	—	—
Genitive	díbirctheoH, díbirctheaH	—	—
Dative	díbirciudL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of díbirciud

radical	lenition	nasalization
díbirciud	díbirciud pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndíbirciud

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