dítiu

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

dítiu f (genitive díten)

  1. verbal noun of do·eim (“to protect”)
    • 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. 67d14
      Amal rund·gab slíab Sión andes ⁊ antúaid du⟨n⟩ chath⟨raig⟩ dïa dítin, sic rund·gabsat ar ṅdá thoíb du dítin ar n-inmedónach-ni.
      As Mount Sion is located on the south and the north of the city to protect it, so are our two sides there to protect our insides.

Declension

Feminine n-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative dítiu — —
Vocative dítiu — —
Accusative dítinN — —
Genitive díten — —
Dative dítinL, dítiuL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • ⇒ Middle Irish: díten m

Mutation

Mutation of dítiu
radical lenition nasalization
dítiu dítiu
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ 		ndítiu

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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