goiste

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡosʲtʲe]

Noun

goiste m (genitive goisti, nominative plural goisti)

1. noose, halter (rope with a noose, gallows rope)
   • 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. 23^b10

     Hó goistiu .i. do·bert goiste imma brágait fadesin ɔid·marb, húare nád ndigni Abisolón a chomairli.

     By a noose, i.e. he put a noose around his own neck so that it killed him, because Absalom did not follow his advice.

     (literally, “do his advice”)

Declension

Masculine io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	goiste	goisteL	goistiL
Vocative	goisti	goisteL	goistiu
Accusative	goisteN	goisteL	goistiuH
Genitive	goistiL	goisteL	goisteN
Dative	goistiuL	goistib	goistib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: gaiste

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 goiste”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language