testimin
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Latin testimōnium.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittestimin m or f
- testimony
- text, passage (of scripture)
- 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. 38c3
- Ní hé apstal cita·rogab in testimin so. Aliter: Ní fou da·uc int apstal fon chéill fuand·rogab in fáith.
- It is not (the) apostle who first uttered this text. Otherwise: The apostle did not apply it in the sense in which the prophet uttered it.
- 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. 38c3
Declension
editIndeclinable in the singular; declined as an ī-stem in the plural.
Feminine ī-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | testiminL | testiminL | testimniH |
Vocative | testiminL | testiminL | testimniH |
Accusative | testiminN | testiminL | testimniH |
Genitive | testiminH | testiminL | testimneN |
Dative | testiminL | testimnib | testimnib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
editradical | lenition | nasalization |
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testimin | thestimin | testimin 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.
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “teistimin, teistemain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language