taís

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tais"

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *taistos. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *těsto and its descendants.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtai̯s/

Noun

taís (gender unknown, genitive unattested)

  1. (hapax legomenon) dough
    • 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. 140b4
      .i. cid cré cid táis rl.
      i.e. whether clay or dough, etc.

Inflection

The word's inflection is generally taken to be an o-stem of unknown gender. However, the exact Slavic cognate is neuter.

Derived terms

  • toísrenn

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: tóes, táes

Mutation

Mutation of taís
radical lenition nasalization
taís thaís taís
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) “*taysto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 374

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