midithir

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *medyetor, from Proto-Indo-European *med- (to measure; give advice).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmʲiðʲiθʲirʲ/

Verb

midithir (prototonic ·midethar, verbal noun mess)

  1. to weigh, to judge, to estimate
  2. to pass judgment (+ for (on))
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 6b22
      Ní latt aní ara·rethi et ní lat in cách forsa·mmitter.
      What you assail is not yours, and not everyone on whom you pass judgment is yours.

Inflection

Derived terms

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
midithir
also mmidithir after a proclitic
midithir
pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/
midithir
also mmidithir after a proclitic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • midithir” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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