deithbir

Old Irish

Alternative forms
  • dedbir, deidbir, deithbeir, dethfir, deithfir

Etymology

dí- +‎ aithber (“blame, rebuke”) (thus literally ‘blameless’).[1][2][3] Alternatively, from the same root as Old Irish dead and Welsh diwedd (“end”).[4]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈdʲeθʲvʲirʲ/

Adjective

deithbir

  1. reasonable
    • 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. 6a13
      is deidbir ha áigthiu ar is do thabirt díglae berid in claideb sin
      it is reasonable to fear him, for it is to inflict punishment that he bears that sword

Declension
i-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative deithbir deithbir deithbir
Vocative deithbir
Accusative deithbir deithbir
Genitive deithbir deithbire deithbir
Dative deithbir deithbir deithbir
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative deithbiri deithbiri
Vocative deithbiri
Accusative deithbiri
Genitive deithbir*
deithbire
Dative deithbirib
Notes *not when substantivized

Descendants
  • Middle Irish: deithbir (“reasonableness”, noun)
    • Irish: deifir (“hurry”, noun)

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
deithbir deithbir
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/		 ndeithbir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Sanas Cormaic
  2. Rudolf Thurneysen (1940) A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, page 219
  3. “1 deithbir” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  4. Holger Pedersen, Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1909, vol. I, p. 504
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