spirut

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• spiurt

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin spīritus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspʲirud/

Noun

spirut m

1. spirit, incorporeal being, angel

   spirut noíb ― the Holy Spirit

2. ghost, apparition
3. spirit, soul
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13^d7

     Béoigidir in spirut in corp in fecht so.

     The spirit brings the body to life now.

4. spirit, influence, inspiration
5. vital spirit, life

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	spirut	spirutL	spiruta
Vocative	spirut	spirutL	spirutu
Accusative	spirutN	spirutL	spirutu
Genitive	spirutoH, spiritoH, spi(u)rto	spiruto, spirito, spi(u)rto	spirutaeN
Dative	spirutL	spirutaib	spirutaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• spirtálde
• spirtide
• spirutálta

 

Descendants

• Irish: spiorad
• Manx: spyrryd
• Scottish Gaelic: spiorad

Further reading

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