maidid
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *madyeti (“to break”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to drip, ooze; grease, fat”), though the semantic connection is difficult.[1] The reduplicated preterite and future stems in meb- /mʲev-/ are dissimilated from mem- /mʲeṽ-/.
Pronunciation
Verb
maidid (conjunct ·maid, ·maith or ·moith, verbal noun maidm)
- (intransitive) to break, to burst
- (impersonal, with ré + the person defeating and/or for + the person being defeated) to defeat, to rout
- 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. 51c9
- is in núall do·ngníat hó ru·maith for a náimtea remib
- it is the cry that they make when their enemies are defeated by them
- 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. 51c9
Inflection
Simple, class B II present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Abs. | maidit | |||||||
| Conj. | ·maid, ·moith ru·maith (ro-form) |
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| Preterite | Abs. | memdaitir | |||||||
| Conj. | ·(m)memaid, ·(m)mebaid | ·mebdatar | |||||||
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| Perfect | Deut. | ro·mmemaid, co·mmebaid | |||||||
| Prot. | ·(r)róemid | ·raimdetar | |||||||
| Future | Abs. | memais, mebais | mebusmet | ||||||
| Conj. | ·(m)mema ·roíma (ro-form) |
·memsam | ·memsat, ·mebsat | ||||||
| Rel. | memsite | ||||||||
| Conditional | ·mebsad | ·mebsaitis | |||||||
| Present subjunctive | Abs. | máis | |||||||
| Conj. | ·má, ·mǽ | ||||||||
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| Past subjunctive | ·maissed | ||||||||
| Imperative | maided | ||||||||
| Verbal noun | maidm | ||||||||
| Past participle | |||||||||
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Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| maidid also mmaidid after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
maidid pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 251–52
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “maidid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 574
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 465
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- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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