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Old Irish
Etymology
From com- + tibid.
Verb
con·tibi (verbal noun cuitbiud)
- to laugh at, to make fun of, to mock, to ridicule
- 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-I 2948
Mellgléo Iliach-sin úai condid·n-atib in slóg.- This "The Humorous Fight of Iliach" because the army laughed at him.
- 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. 17a3
- con·tifea ― glosses Latin inredebit (“(s)he will mock”)
- c. 850-900, Trecheng Breth Féne, published in The Triads of Ireland (1906, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, §82
Trí buirb in betha: óc con·tibi sen, slán con·tibi galarach, gáeth con·tibi báeth.- Three rude ones of this world: a youngster mocking an old man, a heathy person mocking an invalid, a wise man mocking a fool.
- Tecosca Cormaic, published in Tecosca Cormaic. The Instructions of King Cormaic Mac Airt (1909, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, page 17
ní·cuitbinn sen ciarba óc,- I did not deride old people although I was young,
Inflection
Complex, class A II present, s preterite, f future
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con·tibu
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con·tibi
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·cuitbinn
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cot·n-aitib (with infixed pronoun t-)
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ɔ·aittibset
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con·tifea
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cuitbiud
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Mutation
Mutation of contibi
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con·thibi
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con·tibi
pronounced with /-d(ʲ)-/
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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