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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *taistos. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *těsto and its descendants.
Pronunciation
Noun
taís (gender unknown, genitive unattested)
- (hapax) dough
- 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. 140b4
.i. cid cré cid táis rl.- i.e. whether clay or dough, etc.
Inflection
The word's inflection is generally taken to be an o-stem of unknown gender. However, the exact Slavic cognate is neuter.
Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
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Nasalization
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pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
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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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