stoir
Old Irish
Etymology
From Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [storʲ]
Noun
stoir f (genitive stoir)
- history
- 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. 14d10
- Is samlid léicfimmi-ni doïbsom aisndís dint ṡéns ⁊ din mórálus, manip écóir frisin stoir ad·fíadam-ni.
- It is thus we shall leave to them the exposition of the sense and the morality, if it is not at variance with the history that we relate.
- 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. 14d10
Apparently uninflected in Old Irish; later declined as an ī-stem.
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “stair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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