doinfet

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Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ ind- + Proto-Celtic *swizdeti.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /doˈhinʲ.ɸʲəd/,

Verb

do·infet (verbal noun tinfed)

  1. to blow, breathe
  2. to inspire
    • 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. 4a27
      Coïr irnigde trá inso, act ní chumcam-ni ón, mani thinib in spirut.
      This, then, is the right way to pray, but we cannot do that unless the spirit inspires it.

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References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*swizd-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 365

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