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Old Irish
Etymology
From ar- + dí- + benaid (“to strike”).
Verb
ar·díben (prototonic ·airdben, verbal noun airdbe)
- to destroy, slay, slaughter
- c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-YBL 1089
Ar·díbi firu i n(i)-áthu […]- He will slay men in fords
- 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. 30a4
- .i. ni·airdben ― glosses Latin non interimit (“it does not destroy”)
Inflection
Complex, class B IV present, i future
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·airdben
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ar·díbi
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| Verbal noun
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airdbe
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airdbide
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| Verbal of necessity
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Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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Lenition |
Nasalization
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ar·díben
pronounced with /-ð(ʲ)-/
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ar·ndíben
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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