spirut

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• spiurt

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin spīritus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈspʲirud]

Noun

spirut m

1. spirit, incorporeal being, angel
2. ghost, apparition
3. spirit, soul
   • 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. 4^a27

     Is and didiu for·téit spiritus ar n-énirti-ni in tain bes n-inun accobor lenn .i. la corp et anim et la spirut. Coir irnigde trá in so, act ní chumcam-ni ón, mani thinib in spirut. I⟨s⟩ samlid trá is lobur ar n-irnigde-ni, mat réte frecndirci gesme, et nín·fortéit-ni in spirut oc suidiu. Is hed didiu for·théit in spirut, in tain guidme-ni inducbáil diar corp et diar n-animm iar n-esséirgiu.

     So it is then that the spirit helps our weakness when we have the same desire, i.e. body and soul and spirit. This, then, is the right way to pray, but we cannot do that unless the spirit inspire it. Thus then our way of praying is feeble if they be present things which we ask for, and the spirit does not help us with this. Then the spirit helps when we pray for glory for our body and for our soul after resurrection.

   • 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. 13^d7

     Béoigidir in spirut in corp in fecht so.

     The spirit brings the body to life now.

4. spirit, influence, inspiration
5. vital spirit, life

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	spirut	spirutL	spiruta
Vocative	spirut	spirutL	spirutu
Accusative	spirutN	spirutL	spirutu
Genitive	spirutoH, spiritoH, spi(u)rto	spiruto, spirito, spi(u)rto	spirutaeN
Dative	spirutL	spirutaib	spirutaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• spirtálde
• spirtide
• spirutálta
• Spirut Nóeb (“the Holy Spirit”)

Descendants

• Middle Irish: spirat
  • Irish: spiorad
  • Manx: spyrryd
  • Scottish Gaelic: spiorad

Further reading

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