erbaid

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Old Irish

Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *erbyeti (to entrust). Possibly cognate with Old Irish orb (heir), Latin orbus (bereft, parentless), Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanós, orphan), Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐌱𐌾𐌰 (arbja, inheritance), if the root of these words is Proto-Indo-European *h₁erbʰ- (to bequeath) rather than *h₃erbʰ- as usually reconstructed.[1] However, the latter reconstruction can be retained if Pedersen is correct that the Old Irish verb comes not from Proto-Celtic *erbyeti but rather from *ɸare-orbyeti, with reinterpretation of the expected prototonic *·air’rbai as a simple conjunct ·erbai with new absolute forms built to it.[2]

Pronunciation

Verb

erbaid (conjunct ·erbai, verbal noun erbud)

  1. to entrust
  2. to trust (with i (in) + accusative)
    • 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. 51b12
      ní ind fessin eirbthi, ⁊ nách dó du·aisilbi na nní do·gní, acht is do Dia
      it is not in himself that he trusts, and it is not to himself that he ascribes whatever he does, but it is to God

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: earb
  • Scottish Gaelic: earb

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*erb-(y)o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 117
  2. ^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, pages 513–14

Further reading