tossogod
Old Irish
Etymology
From tos(ach) + -ugud. Formed as if a verbal noun to *tosaigid(ir), but finite forms are not attested until Early Modern Irish tosaigh.[1]
Noun
tossogod m
- beginning
- 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. 24c17
- Is cucci a lére ro·pridchissi⟨d⟩ doïbsom co n-éicdid doïb cruth ro·pridchissem et do·ndechommar cucuibsi i tossogod.
- So great is the diligence with which you pl have preached to them that you have declared to them the manner in which we have preached and have come to you in the beginning.
- 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. 24c17
Descendants
- Irish: tosú
- Manx: toshiaghey
- Scottish Gaelic: tòiseachadh
Mutation
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| tossogod | thossogod | tossogod pronounced with /d̪-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tosaigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language