taitnigidir

Old Irish

Etymology

Related to do·aitni.

Verb

taitnigidir (verbal noun totnugud)

  1. (hapax) to please
    • 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. 105c7
      ro·taitnigser-suglosses Latin placatus es

Usage notes

This deponent verb and its verbal noun each only occur once as hapaxes in the Milan glosses. The verb shows up a few more times in later Middle Irish homilies.

Inflection

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: taitnigid

Further reading

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