doaithbig

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- + aith- + Proto-Celtic *begeti. *Begeti was soon conflated with boingid of similar meaning, leading to sporadic exchanges of forms.

Verb

do·aithbig (verbal noun taidbech)

  1. (law) to annul, abrogate
    • 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. 22b2
      do·aithbiuch [nó] ni·oirdnimm [nó] ualligim.
      (glossing Latin abrogo) I break [a bargain], or I do not ordain, or I arrogate.

Inflection

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: taithmigid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
do·aithbig unchanged do·n-aithbig
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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