teistiu

Old Irish

Alternative forms

testiu

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtʲesʲtʲu/

Noun

teistiu f (genitive testen)

verbal noun of do·essim:
1. outpour
2. shedding blood
  - 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. 37^c4
    .i. do thestin fule
    to shed blood

Inflection

Feminine n-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	teistiu	—	—
vocative	teistiu	—	—
accusative	teistin^N	—	—
genitive	teisten	—	—
dative	teistin^L, teistiu^L, teste^L	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Mutation

Mutation of *teistiu*
radical	lenition	nasalization
teistiu	theistiu	teistiu pronounced with /dʲ-/

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