teistiu

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• testiu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʲesʲtʲu/

Noun

teistiu f (genitive testen)

1. verbal noun of do·essim:
   1. outpour
   2. shedding blood
      • 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. 37^c4

        .i. do thestin fule

        to shed blood

Inflection

Feminine n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	teistiu	—	—
Vocative	teistiu	—	—
Accusative	teistinN	—	—
Genitive	teisten	—	—
Dative	teistinL, teistiuL, testeL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
teistiu	theistiu	teistiu pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
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), “teistiu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language