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Old Irish
Pronunciation
Verb
gaibthi
- third-person singular present indicative absolute of gaibid (“to hold, take, recite”) with suffixed pronoun -i (third-person singular masculine/neuter)
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 26b7
De dliguth trá inna n-il-toimdden sin, is de gaibthi “igitur”; quasi dixisset “Ní fail ní nád taí mo dligeth-sa fair i ndegaid na comroircnech.”- Of the law then, of those many opinions, it is thereof that he recites “igitur”; as if he had said, “There is nothing which my law does not touch upon after the erroneous ones.
- (literally, “that he recites it ‘igitur’”)
Mutation
Mutation of gaibthi
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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| gaibthi
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gaibthi
pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/
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ngaibthi
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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.