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Old Irish
Pronunciation
Pronoun
diib
- third-person plural dative of di
Quotations
- 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. 11a4
Rethit huili, et is oínḟer gaibes búaid diib inna chomalnad.- All run, and it is one man of them who gets victory for completing it (lit. in its completion).
- 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. 20d4
Cía ru·bé cen ní diib, ní·rubai cenaib huli.- Though he might be without some of them, he could not be without all of them.
- 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. 96c13
Ro·leldar díb són, connacha·glúaistis in charbait.- That is, they clung to them so that the chariots could not move.
Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of diib
radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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diib |
diib pronounced with /ðʲ-/ |
ndiib
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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.