líth
Appearance
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *lītus or *ɸlītus, of uncertain origin.[1] Cognate with Breton lid (“feast, rite”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]líth m (genitive lítha, nominative plural líthe)
- festival
- 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. 27a24
- Nachib·mided .i. nachib·berar i smachtu rechta fetarlicce, inna ndig et a mbíad, inna llíthu et a ssapati, act bad foirbthe far n‑iress.
- Let him not judge you, i.e. do not be borne into the institutions of the Law of the Old Testament, into their drink and their food, into their festivals and their sabbaths; but let your faith be perfect.
- 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. 27a24
Declension
[edit]Masculine u-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | líth | líthL | lítheH |
Vocative | líth | líthL | líthu |
Accusative | líthN | líthL | líthu |
Genitive | líthoH, líthaH | líthoL, líthaL | lítheN |
Dative | líthL | líthaib | líthaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
[edit]- Irish: líth
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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líth also llíth after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
líth pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 241
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “líth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language