tóe

See also: Appendix:Variations of "toe"

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tausos (“deaf”)[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /toː.e/

Adjective

tóë

  1. silent

Inflection

io/iā-stem
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative tóe tóe tóe
vocative tói
accusative tóe tói
genitive tói tóe tói
dative tóu tói tóu
plural masculine feminine/neuter
nominative tói tói
vocative tói
tóu*
accusative tói
tóu*
genitive tóe
dative tóib

* when substantivized

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: tóe
  • ⇒ Middle Irish: toíthenach
    • Irish: taoitheanach

Mutation

Mutation of tóe
radical lenition nasalization
tóe thóe tóe
pronounced with /d-/

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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*tawso-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 373

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