marbaid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *marwāti. By surface analysis, marb +‎ -aid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmarβɨðʲ]

Verb

marbaid (conjunct ·marba, verbal noun marbad)

1. to kill, slay

   Synonym: orcaid

   • 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. 23^b10

     Hó goistiu .i. do·bert goiste imma brágait fadesin ɔid·marb, húare nád ndigni Abisolón a chomairli.

     By a noose, i.e. he put a noose around his own neck so that it killed him, because Absalom did not follow his advice.

     (literally, “do his advice”)

2. to annul, cancel
3. (law) to alienate, amortise

Conjugation

Simple, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	abs.	marbu, marbaim	marbai	marbaid	marbmai	marbthae	marbait	marbthair
	conj.	·marbu, ·marbaim	·marbai	·marba	·marbam	·marbaid	·marbat	·marbthar
	rel.
imperfect indicative
preterite	abs.			marbais
	conj.	·marbus		·marb			·marbsat
	rel.
perfect	deut.			ro·marb			ro·marbsat
	prot.
future	abs.			mairfid
	conj.		·mairbfe		·mairfem			·mairfider
	rel.
conditional				·marfed					·mairfitis
present subjunctive	abs.								marbitir
	conj.	·marb		·marba
	rel.
past subjunctive		·marbaind							·marbtais
imperative
verbal noun		marbad
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• uilemarbaid

Mutation

Mutation of marbaid

radical	lenition	nasalization
marbaid also mmarbaid after a proclitic ending in a vowel	marbaid 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.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “marbaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language