dind
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [dʲin͈d]
Article
dind
- of/from the sg
Etymology 2
From Proto-Celtic *dindu, cognate to Proto-Germanic *tindaz (“peak, tip”).
Noun
dind n
- height, hill
- c. 808, Félire Oengusso, May 17; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:
- Scorsit cen chuit fainne for dind flatha finde.
- They unyoked, without a wit of weakness, on a height of the blessed kingdom.
- a fortified settlement, stronghold
- 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. 63a13
- a ṅdind, Suthul á nom[en]
- The town, Suthul [was] its name.
- 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. 63a13
Inflection
| Neuter u-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | dindN | dindL | dindL, dinda |
| Vocative | dindN | dindL | dind |
| Accusative | dindN | dindL | dind |
| Genitive | dindoH, dindaH | dindoN, dindaN | dindN |
| Dative | dindL | dindaib | dindaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
| |||
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| dind | dind pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ |
ndind |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “dind”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.