maidid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *madyeti (“to break”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to drip, ooze; grease, fat”), though the semantic connection is difficult.^[1] The reduplicated preterite and future stems in meb- /mʲev-/ are dissimilated from mem- /mʲeṽ-/.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈmaðʲiðʲ]

Verb

maidid (conjunct ·maid, ·maith or ·moith, verbal noun maidm)

(intransitive) to break, burst
(impersonal) to defeat, rout [with ré (+ person defeating) and for (+ person being defeated)]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:maidid.

Inflection

Simple, class B II present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	3rd pl.
Present indicative	Abs.				maidit
	Conj.		·maid, ·moith; ru·maith (ro-form)
	Rel.

Imperfect indicative

Preterite	Abs.				memdaitir
	Conj.		·memaid, ·mmemaid, ·mebaid, ·mmebaid		·mebdatar
	Rel.

Perfect	Deut.		ro·mmemaid, co·mmebaid
Perfect	Prot.		·róemid, ·rróemid		·raimdetar

Future	Abs.		memais, mebais	mebusmet
	Conj.		·mema, ·mmema; ·roíma (ro-form)	·memsam	·memsat, ·mebsat
	Rel.				memsite

Conditional			·mebsad		·mebsaitis

Present subjunctive	Abs.		máis
	Conj.		·má, ·mǽ; ·roma (ro-form)
	Rel.

Past subjunctive			·maissed		·roimsitis (ro-form)

Imperative			maided

Verbal noun		maidm
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Derived terms

do·maid

Related terms

díumaidm

Descendants

Irish: maígh, maidhm (denominal re-formation from the verbal noun)

Mutation

Mutation of *maidid*
radical	lenition	nasalization
maidid also mmaidid after a proclitic ending in a vowel	maidid pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 251–52

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “maidid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 574
Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 465; reprinted 2017

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 251–52

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