abstanit
Old Irish
Etymology
From Latin abstinentia.
Noun
abstanit f
- abstinence
- 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. 6b17
- .i. níbí sain-láa la suidib, act is abstanit doib semper.
- i.e. they are not wont to have a particular day, but it is abstinence for them always.
- 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. 6c13
- .i. lobrigthir á abstanit.
- i.e. his abstinence is weakened.
- c. 815-840, published in "The Monastery of Tallaght", in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (1911-1912, Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Edward J. Gwynn and Walter J. Purton, vol. 29, pp. 115–179, paragraph 18,
- Ní·fil ní do·gné dune dar cend indtí ad·bail nad cobair dó, etir figill ⁊ abstanit ⁊ gabail n-ecnairci ⁊ almsanae ⁊ bendachtae menci.
- There is nothing that a man does on behalf of one that dies that does not help him, whether it be vigil or abstinence, or reciting intercessory prayers or almsgiving, or frequent benediction.
- 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. 6b17
Inflection
| Feminine ī-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | abstanitL | — | — |
| Vocative | abstanitL | — | — |
| Accusative | abstanitN | — | — |
| Genitive | abstaniteH | — | — |
| Dative | abstanitL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
- Irish: abstanaid
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| abstanit | unchanged | n-abstanit |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “abstanit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language