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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *madyeti (“to break”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to drip, ooze; grease, fat”), though the semantic connection is difficult. The reduplicated preterite and future stems in meb- /mʲev-/ are dissimilated from mem- /mʲeṽ-/.
Pronunciation
Verb
maidid (conjunct ·maid, ·maith or ·moith, verbal noun maidm)
- (intransitive) to break, to burst
- c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, published in Táin Bó Cúailnge. Recension I (1976, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Cecile O'Rahilly, TBC-I 3617
Do·lotar do fásguba[e] fairseom ó Medb co roimsitis a fuile fair […]- came to from Medb to falsely lament over him so that his wounds would burst open ...
- (impersonal, with ré + the person defeating and/or for + the person being defeated) to defeat, to rout
- c. 750-800 Tairired na nDessi from Rawlinson B 502, published in "The Expulsion of the Dessi", Y Cymmrodor (1901, Society of Cymmrodorion), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, vol. 14, pp. 104-135, paragraph 5
Do·bert Cormac sluago forsna Déisse ⁊ ro·mebdatar secht catha for(th)u ria n-Óengus co maccaib a bráthar .i. Russ ⁊ Eogan.- Cormac sent hosts against the Deisi, who were routed after seven battles by Óengus and the sons of his brother, to wit, Russ and Eogan.
- 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. 89c11
Mani ro{i}ma fora cenn, ní mema forsna bullu.- If their head is not defeated, the members will not be defeated.
- 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. 51c9
is in núall do·ngníat hó ru·maith for a náimtea remib- it is the cry that they make when their enemies are defeated by them
Inflection
Simple, class B II present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive
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Passive sg.
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maidit
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·maid, ·moith; ru·maith (ro-form)
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memdaitir
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·memaid, ·mmemaid, ·mebaid, ·mmebaid
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·mebdatar
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ro·mmemaid, co·mmebaid
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·róemid, ·rróemid
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·raimdetar
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memais, mebais
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mebusmet
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·mema, ·mmema; ·roíma (ro-form)
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·memsam
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·memsat, ·mebsat
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memsite
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·mebsad
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·mebsaitis
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máis
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·má, ·mǽ; ·roma (ro-form)
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·maissed
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·roimsitis (ro-form)
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maided
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maidm
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Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Irish: maígh, maidhm (denominal re-formation from the verbal noun)
Mutation
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maidid
also mmaidid after a proclitic
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maidid
pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/
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unchanged
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “maidid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 574
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 465