étaigidir

Old Irish

Etymology

ét (“jealousy”) +‎ -igidir

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈeːdiɣʲiðʲirʲ]

Verb

étaigidir

to emulate, envy, be jealous of
- 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. 56^b31
  Cía techtid nach aile ní ad·chobrai-siu ⁊ ní techtai-siu ón immurgu, ní étaigther-su immanísin, .i. ní ascnae ⁊ ní charae; is sí indala ch[í]all les isindí as emulari in sin.
  Though another may possess what you may desire and you do however not possess, you should not be jealous of that thing, i.e. you should not seek after and love it; that is one of the two meanings that he finds in emulari.
- 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. 56^b39
  Ad·n‑amraigther .i. no·n‑étaigther .i. ad·cosnae són nó no·carae
  that you sg may admire, i.e. that you may emulate i.e. that you may strive after or love

Conjugation

Simple, class A II present, a subjunctive, deponent
		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd	singular	plural
present indicative	abs.
	conj.						·éttigetar
	rel.

imperfect indicative

preterite	abs.
	conj.
	rel.

perfect	deut.
perfect	prot.

future	abs.
	conj.
	rel.

conditional

present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.		·étaigther
	rel.

past subjunctive

imperative

verbal noun
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of *étaigidir*
radical	lenition	nasalization
étaigidir (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	étaigidir	n-étaigidir

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “étaigidir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language