buith

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

both (original nominative)
buid (mostly Würzburg spelling)

Etymology

Originally the dative (and accusative) of both, from Proto-Celtic *butā (compare Welsh bod), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /buθʲ/

Noun

buith f (genitive buithe)

verbal noun of at·tá
- 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. 5^b20
  trisin intamail sin .i. combad ǽt leu buid domsa i n-iriss et duús in intamlitis
  through that imitation, i.e. so that there may be jealousy with them for me to be in faith and if by chance they might imitate
- 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. 15^a20
  Ní foí⟨l⟩sitis déicsin a gnúsa íar mbid dó oc accaldim Dé, oc tindnacul recto dó.
  They would not have endured the beholding of his face after he had been conversing with God, at the bestowing of the law to him.

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	buith^L, both^L	—	—
Vocative	buith^L, both^L	—	—
Accusative	buith^N, bid	—	—
Genitive	buithe^H	—	—
Dative	buith^L, bid	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

Middle Irish: beith, bith
- Irish: bheith
- Scottish Gaelic: bhith

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
buith	buith pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/	mbuith
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), “1 buith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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