tegdais
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtʲeɣ.ðəsʲ/
Noun
tegdais f (genitive tegdaise or tegdassa, nominative plural tegdaissi)
- house
- 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. 105b7
- Is ferr liumsa buith i nneuch as doiscairem hi tír Israhel oldaas buith i nneuch di t[h]echdaisib sainemlaib ⁊ sommaib inna [Ba]bellondae.
- I would rather be in the meanest place in the land of Israel than in any of the splendid and wealthy houses of the Babylonians.
- c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 14
- i.e. amal tegdais fora·tochar[r] deg-lí anechtair ⁊ is fás a inchrud a mmedón. Is sam[laid]-sin ro·batar .i. amal mbís tegdis fás [a mm]edón ⁊ scópthe.
- i.e. like a house onto which good beauty is put on the outside and is empty of furniture from the inside. It is thus that they were, i.e. like a house that was empty and swept.
- Synonym: tech
- 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. 105b7
Inflection
| Feminine ī-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | tegdaisL | tegdaisL | tegdaissiH |
| Vocative | tegdaisL | tegdaisL | tegdaissiH |
| Accusative | tegdaisN | tegdaisL | tegdaissiH |
| Genitive | tegdaiseH | tegdaiseL | tegdaiseN |
| Dative | tegdaisL | techdaisib | techdaisib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
| |||
| Feminine i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | tegdais | tegdaisL | tegdaissiH |
| Vocative | tegdais | tegdaisL | tegdaissiH |
| Accusative | tegdaisN | tegdaisL | tegdaissiH |
| Genitive | tegdassoH, tegdassaH | tegdassoH, tegdassaH | tegdaisseN |
| Dative | tegdaisL | tegdaissib | tegdaissib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
| |||
Descendants
- Middle Irish: tegdais, tegdas
- Irish: teaghais
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| tegdais | thegdais | tegdais 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), “tegdais”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language