marbaid

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *marwāti. By surface analysis, marb +‎ -aid.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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marbaid (conjunct ·marba, verbal noun marbad)

  1. to kill, slay
    Synonym: orcaid
    • 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. 23b10
      Hó goistiu .i. do·bert goiste imma brágait fadesin ɔid·marb, húare nád ndigni Abisolón a chomairli.
      By a noose, i.e. he put a noose around his own neck so that it killed him, because Absalom did not follow his advice.
      (literally, “do his advice”)
  2. to annul, cancel
  3. (law) to alienate, amortise

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
marbaid
also mmarbaid after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
marbaid
pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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