scríbend
Appearance
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin scrībendum; compare Welsh ysgrifen.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]scríbend n (genitive scríbind, nominative plural scríbenda)
- verbal noun of scríbaid
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 9a22 (Wikisource link)
- Cía for·comam-ni ríagoil sen-Gréc hi scríbunt in dá caractar isnaib ɔsonaib ucut, ro·cruthaigsemmar camaiph immurgu óen charactar – ·f· tar hési ·p· co tinfeth – i n‑epertaib Latinṅdaib.
- Although we preserve the rule of the ancient Greeks in writing the two characters in those consonants, we have, however, formed one character – f instead of p with lenition – in Latin words.
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 9a22 (Wikisource link)
- something written (book, manuscript, etc.)
- letter, message
- charter, title-deed, claim
- inscription
Inflection
[edit]Neuter o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | scríbendN | scríbendN | scríbendL, scríbenda |
Vocative | scríbendN | scríbendN | scríbendL, scríbenda |
Accusative | scríbendN | scríbendN | scríbendL, scríbenda |
Genitive | scríbindL | scríbend | scríbendN |
Dative | scríbundL, scríbuntL | scríbendaib | scríbendaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Irish: scríbhinn
- Manx: screeuyn
- Scottish Gaelic: sgrìobhainn
- ⇒ Middle Irish: scríbnaigid
- ⇒ Middle Irish: scríbneóir
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scríbend”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language