toimtiu

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tomantiyū (“thinking”) (verbal noun of *to-manyetor (“to think”)), from *to- +‎ *mantiyū. The latter is from Proto-Indo-European *mn̥-ti-Hon-, which is a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *men-ti-s (“though, mind”). toimtiu is an exact cognate of Latin mentiō (“a mention”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

toimtiu f (genitive toimten)

  1. verbal noun of do·muinethar
  2. opinion
    • 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.

Declension

Feminine n-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative toimtiu toimtinL toimtin
Vocative toimtiu toimtinL toimtenaH
Accusative toimtinN toimtinL toimtenaH
Genitive toimten, toimdden toimtenL, toimdden toimtenN, toimddenN
Dative toimtinL, toimtiuL toimtenaib toimtenaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: toimhde (“presumption”)

Mutation

Mutation of toimtiu
radical lenition nasalization
toimtiu thoimtiu toimtiu
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Stüber, Karin (1998) The Historical Morphology of n-Stems in Celtic (Maynooth studies in Celtic linguistics; III), Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, →ISBN, page 121

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