stoir

Old Irish

Etymology

From Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [storʲ]

Noun

stoir f (genitive stoir)

1. 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. 14^d10

     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.

Apparently uninflected in Old Irish; later declined as an ī-stem.

Descendants

• Middle Irish: stair
  • Irish: stair

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “stair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language