cuitbiud

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Old Irish

Etymology

Formed with the suffix -ad.

Noun

cuitbiud m (genitive cuitbeda)

  1. verbal noun of con·tib: mockery, ridicule
    • c. 775-850, Cambridge 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. 4-6, 48a
      no·senditis .i. ba sí a fálte mo chuitbiud.
      They were playing; their welcome was to mock me.
    • 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 48
      "A húi Chuind, a Chormaic," ol Carpre, "cate forus cuitbeda la Féine?" "Ni hansa," ol Cormac.
      "O grandson of Conn, Cormac," said Carpre, "what is the code of ridicule among the Irish?" "Not hard ", said Cormac.

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative cuitbiud
Vocative cuitbiud
Accusative cuitbiudN
Genitive cuitbedoH, cuitbedaH
Dative cuitbiudL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
cuitbiud chuitbiud cuitbiud
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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