contibi

Old Irish

Etymology

From com- +‎ tibid.

Verb

con·tibi (verbal noun cuitbiud)

1. to laugh at, to make fun of, to mock, to ridicule
   • c. 700–800, Táin Bó Cúailnge; from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe , TBC-I 2948:

     Mellgléo Iliach-sin úai[re] condid·n-atib in slóg.

     This [is called] "The Humorous Fight of Iliach" because the army laughed at him.

   • 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. 17^a3

     con·tifea ― glosses Latin inredebit (“(s)he will mock”)

   • c. 850-900, Trecheng Breth Féne, published in The Triads of Ireland (1906, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, §82

     Trí buirb in betha: óc con·tibi sen, slán con·tibi galarach, gáeth con·tibi báeth.

     Three rude ones of this world: a youngster mocking an old man, a heathy person mocking an invalid, [and] a wise man mocking a fool.

   • Tecosca Cormaic, published in Tecosca Cormaic. The Instructions of King Cormaic Mac Airt (1909, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, page 17

     ní·cuitbinn sen ciarba óc,

     I did not deride old people although I was young,

Inflection

Complex, class A II present, s preterite, f future

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.	con·tibu		con·tibi
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.	·cuitbinn
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.			cot·n-aitib (with infixed pronoun t-)			ɔ·aittibset
	prot.
future	deut.			con·tifea
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		cuitbiud
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of con·tibi

radical	lenition	nasalization
con·tibi	con·tibi	con·tibi pronounced with /d̪̠ʲ-/

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