Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From íarm- +‎ fo- +‎ saigid.

Noun

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íarfaigid f (genitive íarfaigtho)

  1. verbal noun of íarmi·foich: asking, inquiry
    • 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. 11b21
      .i. ni áil dúib a íarfigid, arna·rala for cubus airi.
      i.e. it is not proper for you to ask it, lest your conscience should suffer because of it.

Inflection

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Feminine i-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative íarfaigid íarfaigidL íarfaigthiH
Vocative íarfaigid íarfaigidL íarfaigthiH
Accusative íarfaigidN íarfaigidL íarfaigthiH
Genitive íarfaigtheoH, íarfaigtheaH íarfaigtheoH, íarfaigtheaH íarfaigtheN
Dative íarfaigidL íarfaigthib íarfaigthib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
íarfaigid
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-íarfaigid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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