Noun
béim n (genitive béimme, nominative plural béimmen)
- verbal noun of benaid: a blow (act of striking or hitting), stroke (blow or hit)
- Synonym: bíth
- 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. 4d15
In Belzefuth: is béss didu ind lïacc benir il-béim friss, et intí do·thuit foir ɔ·boing a chnámi, intí fora tuit-som immurgu at·bail-side.- The Beelzebub: it is the custom, then, of the stone that many blows are hit against it, and he who falls upon it breaks his bones; however, he whom it falls on perishes
- The Old Irish Table of Penitential Commutations, published in Ériu 19 (1962, Royal Irish Academy), pp. 47-72, edited and with translations by D. A. Binchy, §12
Arrae throiscti hi mminpectu choitcend .i. "Ałł ałł manus tuas dne..." usque "...veritatis", Pr. Nr. co forcend. Canar in sin hi crosfigill fo trichait ⁊ trichait slechtan ⁊ trichae mbemmend du abuind inna degad dide.- Commutation of a fast for ordinary minor sins: Alleluia, alleluia, in manus tuas Domine... as far as veritatis and a full Pater Noster. This is sung thirty times in cross-vigil, and [during the] thirty genuflexions and thirty blows with a whip afterwards.
Declension
More information Neuter n-stem, Singular ...
Neuter n-stem |
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Singular |
Dual |
Plural |
Nominative |
béimN |
béimN |
béimmenL |
Vocative |
béimN |
béimN |
béimmenL |
Accusative |
béimN |
béimN |
béimmenL |
Genitive |
béimme |
béimmenN |
béimmenN |
Dative |
béimmimL, béim |
béimmenaib |
béimmenaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Derived terms
- ailbéimm
- aithbéimm
- béimnech
- taithbéim
- tobéim
Mutation
More information radical, lenition ...
Mutation of béim
radical | lenition | nasalization |
béim |
béim pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ |
mbéim |
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*bē-sman”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 64