tóeb

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• táeb, toíb

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *toybos, whence also Breton, Cornish, and Welsh tu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [toːi̯β]

Noun

tóeb m (genitive toíb, nominative plural toíb)

1. side
   • 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. 67^d14

     Amal rund·gab slíab Sión andes ⁊ antúaid du⟨n⟩ chath⟨raig⟩ dïa dítin, sic rund·gabsat ar ṅdá thoíb du dítin ar n-inmedónach-ni.

     As Mount Sion is located on the south and the north of the city to protect it, so are our two sides there to protect our insides.

Inflection

Masculine o-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	tóeb, toíb	tóebL, toíb	toíbL
vocative	toíb	tóebL, toíb	tóebuH
accusative	tóebN, toíb	tóebL, toíb	tóebuH
genitive	toíbL	tóeb, toíb	tóebN, toíb
dative	tóebL	tóebaib	tóebaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• lettáeb

Descendants

• Irish: taobh
• Manx: çheu
• Scottish Gaelic: taobh

Mutation

Mutation of tóeb

radical	lenition	nasalization
tóeb	thóeb	tóeb pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/

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), “taeb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language