taitnigidir

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Old Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Related to do·aitni.

Verb[edit]

taitnigidir (verbal noun totnugud)

  1. (hapax) to please
    • 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. 105c7
      ro·taitnigser-suglosses Latin placatus es

Usage notes[edit]

This deponent verb and its verbal noun each only occur once as hapaxes in the Milan glosses. The verb shows up a few more times in later Middle Irish homilies.

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Descendants[edit]

  • Middle Irish: taitnigid

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