testimin

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• testemin

Etymology

From Latin testimōnium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtʲesʲtʲiṽʲinʲ]

Noun

testimin m or f

1. testimony
2. text, passage (of scripture)
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 38^c3

     Ní hé apstal cita·rogab in testimin so. Aliter: Ní fou da·uc int apstal fon chéill fuand·rogab in fáith.

     It is not (the) apostle who first uttered this text. Otherwise: The apostle did not apply it in the sense in which the prophet uttered it.

Declension

Indeclinable in the singular; declined as an ī-stem in the plural.

Feminine ī-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	testiminL	testiminL	testimniH
Vocative	testiminL	testiminL	testimniH
Accusative	testiminN	testiminL	testimniH
Genitive	testiminH	testiminL	testimneN
Dative	testiminL	testimnib	testimnib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
testimin	thestimin	testimin pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “teistimin, teistemain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language