doimmdiben

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ immdíben (“to excise”), composed of to- (“to”) +‎ imm- (“circum-”) +‎ dí- (“de-”) +‎ benaid (“to strike”).

Verb

do·immdíben

1. to cut away, shorten
   • 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. 88^a11

     ł. macerarer .i. lasse nom·seimigthese .i. du·n-indbithe mu chland beus

     or macerarer, i.e. when I used to be attenuated, i.e. when my clan used to be diminished further.

Inflection

Descendants

• Middle Irish: timdibid

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do-immdíben”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language