doimmdiben

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From to- +‎ immdíben (to excise), composed of to- (to) +‎ imm- (circum-) +‎ dí- (de-) +‎ benaid (to strike).

Verb

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do·immdíben

  1. to cut away, shorten
    • 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. 88a11
      ł. macerarer .i. lasse nom·seimigthese .i. du·n-indbithe mu chland beus
      or macerarer, i.e. when I used to be attenuated, i.e. when my clan used to be diminished further.

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: timdibid

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
do·immdíben
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged do·n-immdíben
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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