ditá

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From dí- +‎ ·tá, likely a calque of Latin distō.

The prefix dí- usually appears as do· in pretonic position, but not in the only attested deuterotonic form of this verb, di·taam.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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di·tá (prototonic ·dithá, verbal noun debuith)

  1. to differ, be different
    Synonym: dechraigidir
    • 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. 117b9
      di·taam-ni .i. dechrigmir-ni ón
      We stand apart i.e. we differ thus

Inflection

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Further reading

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