doimmdiben

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- + immdíben (to excise), composed of to- (to) + imm- (circum-) + dí- (de-) + benaid (to strike).

Verb

do·immdíben

  1. to cut away, shorten
    • 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. 88a11
      ł. macerarer .i. lasse nom·seimigthese .i. du·n-indbithe mu chland beus
      or macerarer, i.e. when I used to be attenuated, i.e. when my clan used to be diminished further.

Inflection

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: timdibid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
do·immdíben unchanged do·n-immdíben
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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