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bith-
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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
From Old Irish bith-, from bith (“world, existence”).
Prefix
bith-
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Prefix
bith-
- (biology) combining form of beatha (“life”): bio-
Derived terms
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bith-”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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Old Irish
Alternative forms
- bid- (especially in the Würzburg glosses)
Etymology
From bith (“world, existence”).
Pronunciation
Prefix
bith-
- ever-, constant
- c. 850, Carlsruhe Glosses on St Augustine’s Soliloquia, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. 2, pp. 1–9, Acr. 1a3
- fírinne apostolorum et omnium iustorum bith-ingabál mundo
- the righteousness of the apostles and all just people is a perpetual reproach to the world
- c. 850, Carlsruhe Glosses on St Augustine’s Soliloquia, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. 2, pp. 1–9, Acr. 1a3
Derived terms
Category Old Irish terms prefixed with bith- not found
Mutation
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), “1 bith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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