epaid
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- aupaith
Etymology
From ad- + buith (“being”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈœ.bəðʲ/
Noun
epaid f (genitive eptha, nominative plural epthai)
- charm, spell
- c. 697-900, Cáin Adomnáin, published in Cáin Adamnáin: an old-Irish treatise on the law of Adamnan (1905, Oxford University Press), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, §46
- Mát epthai día n-apallar da·bera nech do alailiu, féich dunetáiti ind.
- If it be charms by which death is caused by anyone on another, a fine for murder with concealment of the body [is to be paid] for it.
- St. Gall Incantations, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. 2, p. 248
- Fo·certar ind epaid-se i n-im nad·tét i n-uisce...
- This charm is laid in butter, in which it does not go into water...
- 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. 20b20
- aipthi ― glosses Latin veneficia
- c. 697-900, Cáin Adomnáin, published in Cáin Adamnáin: an old-Irish treatise on the law of Adamnan (1905, Oxford University Press), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, §46
Inflection
Feminine i-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | epaid, aupaith | epaidL, aupaith | epthaiH, aipthiH |
Vocative | epaid, aupaith | epaidL, aupaith | epthaiH, aipthiH |
Accusative | epaidN, aupaith | epaidL, aupaith | epthaiH, aipthiH |
Genitive | epthoH, epthaH, aupthaH | epthoH, epthaH, aupthaH | epthaeN |
Dative | epaidL, aupaith | epthaib | epthaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
This term suffered various irregular deformations in the modern Goidelic languages.
- Middle Irish: epaid
- Irish: upa
- Scottish Gaelic: ubag
- Manx: obbee
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
epaid | unchanged | n-epaid |
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), “epaid, aupaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language