taí

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tai"

Northern Tepehuan

Alternative forms

• tai (obsolete)

Etymology

Cognate with Southeastern Tepehuan tai, O'odham tai, Huichol tái, Cora taíj, Classical Nahuatl tletl, Mayo tajji.

Noun

taí

1. fire
   • 1947, Alfabeto tepehuana‎^[1], Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 1:

     t tai

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. spark
3. flame

Further reading

• Bascom, Burt, Molina, Gregorio (1998) Diccionario tepehuán de Baborigame, Chihuahua‎^[2] (in Spanish), draft edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 244

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [taːi̯]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *towe (genitive of *tū), from Proto-Indo-European *tewe (genitive of *túh₂); cognate with Sanskrit तव (tava) and Doric Greek τεῦ (teû).

Pronoun

taí

1. genitive singular of tú: yours sg, thine

Further reading

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 443, page 279; reprinted 2017

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

·taí

1. second-person singular present indicative progressive prototonic of at·tá
2. third-person singular present subjunctive prototonic of do·tét

Mutation

Mutation of taí

radical	lenition	nasalization
taí	thaí	taí 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.