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marbaid

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Old Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmaɾ.βəðʲ/
    • (Blasse) [ˈmaɾ.βɪðʲ]
    • (Griffith) [ˈmaɾ.βɨðʲ]

Verb

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

Mutation

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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
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