doaisféna

== Old Irish == === Etymology === Prefixed with to- +‎ ess-. Related to as·féna (“to swear, testify, attest to”). Their base ·féna is from Proto-Celtic *wetnati, from Proto-Indo-European *weth₂- (“to say”). === Verb === do·aisféna (prototonic ·taisféna, verbal noun taisbénad) to show, exhibit 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. 18d7 ==== Inflection ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle Irish: taisbénaid, taispénaid Irish: taispeáin Scottish Gaelic: taisbean Manx: taishbyn === Mutation === === References === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “doaisféna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language Pedersen, Holger (1913), Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 720, page 517