diib

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• díb, díib

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdʲi.iβ]

Pronoun

diib

1. third-person plural dative of di

Quotations

• 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. 11^a4

  Rethit huili, et is oínḟer gaibes búaid diib inna chomalnad.

  All run, and it is one man of them who gets victory for completing it (lit. in its completion).

• 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. 20^d4

  Cía ru·bé cen ní diib, ní·rubai cenaib huli.

  Though he might be without some of them, he could not be without all of them.

• 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. 96^c13

  Ro·leldar díb són, connacha·glúaistis in charbait.

  That is, they clung to them so that the chariots could not move.

Descendants

• Irish: díobh, dhíobh
• Manx: jeu
• Scottish Gaelic: dhiubh, diubh

Mutation

Mutation of diib

radical	lenition	nasalization
diib	diib pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndiib

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