déeid

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• déed, déid, deid, deeth

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *de-seds, from Proto-Indo-European *de(-h₁) +‎ *sed- +‎ *-s. Cognate with Latin dēses (“idle”), but not an exact cognate, as *eh₁ would have become í in Old Irish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʲeː.eðʲ/

Adjective

déeid

1. idle
   • 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. 131^d11

     .i. donaib déedib betis chloithib .i. ind-í són nad·rochretset taidchor doib asin doiri 7 lasin·rubu maith a n-anad isin doiri

     i.e. to the idle ones who should be conquered, i.e. that is, those that had not believed in their return out of the Captivity, and to whom remaining in the Captivity was good.

2. careless, carefree, at ease
   • 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. 30^d24

     maní·nairi immurgu ní deid 7 is bronach a bethu amal sodin·

     if, however, he should not find him, he is not carefree, and his life is sad in that case.

Declension

i-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	déeid	déeid	déeid
Vocative	déeid
Accusative	déeid	déeid
Genitive	déeid	déeide	déeid
Dative	déeid	déeid	déeid
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	déeidi	déeidi
Vocative	déeidi
Accusative	déeidi
Genitive	déeid* déeide
Dative	déeidib
Notes	*not when substantivized

The anomalous nom. pl. m. deeth may be a relic of a consonantal-stem declension.

Related terms

• déess (“idleness”)

Descendants

• ⇒ Middle Irish: déaith (reanalysed as de- (“un”) + áith (“quick”))

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
déeid	déeid pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndéeid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “déeid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 360, page 228