niroimdibed

Old Irish

Etymology

From ní (“not”) +‎ ro- (perfective particle) +‎ ·imdibed (passive singular preterite of imm·díben (“to circumcise”))

Verb

niro·imdibed

  1. (he) was not circumcised
    • 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. 18d9
      A·taat dí chétbuid híc: imdibe Tit ꝉ a nebimdibe, et is hed ón as fír: sed neque conpulsus circumcidi; ar is Tíamthe imme·ruidbed, et niro·imdibed Tit.
      There are two meanings here: Titus’ circumcision or his uncircumcision, and it is this that is true: “but neither was he compelled to be circumcised”; for it is Timothy who was circumcised, and Titus was not circumcised.
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