addaim

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *addamyeti, cognate to Welsh addef; surface analysis ad- +‎ daimid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a(ð)ˈdaβ̃ʲ]

Verb

ad·daim (prototonic ·ataim, verbal noun aititiu)

1. acknowledge, admit
   • c. 808, Félire Oengusso, section 494; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:

     Rom·sóerae, á Íssu, glé lim atom·didmae amail sóersai popul Israël de Gilbae.

     Save me, O Jesus, it is clear to me that you will acknowledge me like you saved the people of Israel from Gilboa!

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 181^a5

     Is samlid ata·daimet cia chrechtnaigthi nathir mani eple de.

     Thus, they recognize them if a snake wounds him, and if he does not die of that.

Inflection

Complex, class B II present, á preterite, a future, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.	ata·domu (with infixed pronoun dat-)		ad·daim			at·ndaimet (with infixed pronoun d-)
	Prot.	·atmu	·atmaisu (with emphatic suffix -su)	·ataim			·ataimet
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.			ad·dámir
	Prot.		·atamar
Perfect	Deut.	ad·rodamar	ad·rodamar	ad·rodamair			ad·rodamnatar
	Prot.		·árdamarsu (with emphatic suffix -su)	·ardamair
Future	Deut.		atom·didmae (with infixed pronoun dom-)	ad·ndidma
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.			·atma
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative						atmaid
Verbal noun		aititiu
Past participle		atmaithe
Verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Irish: admhaigh

Mutation

Mutation of addaim

radical	lenition	nasalization
ad·daim	ad·daim pronounced with /-ð(ʲ)-/	ad·ndaim

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), “ad-daim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language