cimbid

Old Irish

FWOTD – 21 March 2019

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkʲimʲbʲiðʲ/

Noun

cimbid m

prisoner, captive
victim

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cimbid.

Declension

Masculine i-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	cimbid	cimbid^L	cimbidi^H
vocative	cimbid	cimbid^L	cimbidi^H
accusative	cimbid^N	cimbid^L	cimbidi^H
genitive	cimbetho^H, cimbetha^H	cimbetho^H, cimbetha^H	cimbide^N
dative	cimbid^L	cimbidib	cimbidib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Alternative genitive singular: cimbeto
Alternative nominative/vocative/accusative plural: cimbithi

Descendants

Irish: cime

Mutation

Mutation of *cimbid*
radical	lenition	nasalization
cimbid	chimbid	cimbid pronounced with /ɡʲ-/

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), “cimmid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language