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deithbir

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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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dí- +‎ aithber (blame, rebuke) (thus literally ‘blameless’) (see aithis).[1][2][3][4]

The alternative proposal from the same root as Old Irish dead and Welsh diwedd (end), is obsolete.[5]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈdʲeθʲβʲirʲ]

Adjective

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deithbir

  1. reasonable
    • 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. 6a13
      is deidbir ha áigthiu ar is do thabirt díglae berid in claideb sin
      it is reasonable to fear him, for it is to inflict punishment that he bears that sword

Declension

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i-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative deithbir deithbir deithbir
Vocative deithbir
Accusative deithbir deithbir
Genitive deithbir deithbire deithbir
Dative deithbir deithbir deithbir
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative deithbiri deithbiri
Vocative deithbiri
Accusative deithbiri
Genitive deithbir*
deithbire
Dative deithbirib
Notes *not when substantivized

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: deithbir (reasonableness, noun)
    • Irish: deifir (hurry, noun)

Mutation

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Mutation of deithbir
radical lenition nasalization
deithbir deithbir
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/
ndeithbir

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Sanas Cormaic
  2. ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 219; reprinted 2017
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 deithbir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1996) “1 deithbir”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume D, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page D-46
  5. ^ Pedersen, Holger (1909) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume I, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 345.1, page 504