taís
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tais"
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *taistos. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *těsto and its descendants.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]taís (gender unknown, genitive unattested)
- (hapax) dough
- 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. 140b4
- .i. cid cré cid táis rl.
- i.e. whether clay or dough, etc.
- 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. 140b4
Inflection
[edit]The word's inflection is generally taken to be an o-stem of unknown gender. However, the exact Slavic cognate is neuter.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| taís | thaís | taís 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.
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*taysto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 374
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “taes”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language