díliu
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- díle
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *dī-liy-ū (compare Old Irish lië and Welsh lliant from *liyants and Welsh dillydd from *dī-exs-liyo-), from Proto-Indo-European *leyH- (“flow, flood”) (compare Old Church Slavonic лити (liti, “to pour”), Lithuanian líeti). Alternatively viewed as a loanword from Latin dīluvium, but then with assimilation to native morphology.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdʲiːlʲu/
Noun
díliu f (genitive dílenn or dílend, nominative plural dílinn or dílind)
- flood, deluge
- c. 875, 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. 62b20
- a n-imbed són ind slóig do·lega na ní téte, fo chosmailius dílenn
- the abundance of the army which destroys whatever it comes to, like a deluge
- c. 875, 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. 62b20
Declension
| Feminine n-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | díliu | dílinn, dílindL | dílinn, dílind |
| Vocative | díliu | dílinn, dílindL | dílenna, dílenda |
| Accusative | dílinn, dílindN | dílinn, dílindL | dílenna, dílenda |
| Genitive | dílenn, dílend | dílenn, dílendL | dílenn, dílendN |
| Dative | dílinn, dílindL, díliuL | dílennaib, dílendaib | dílennaib, dílendaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
- Irish: díle
- Scottish Gaelic: dìle
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| díliu | díliu pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ | ndíliu |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- “díliu, díle” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
References
- Holger Pedersen, Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1909, vol. I, p. 197