argair
Old Irish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editVerb
editar·gair (verbal noun irgaire, ergaire)
- to forbid
- 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. 69a21
- Co n-epred, “Du·gén a nnoíb sa ⁊ ní digén ⟨a n-⟩ærgarthae se, cid accubur lium”; ní eper insin.
- So that he should say, “I will do this holy thing and I will not do this forbidden thing, though it is a desire of mine”; he does not say that.
- 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. 69a21
- to herd
- (rare) to call
Usage notes
editThe sense “call” occurs only once: the form ar·gart may be a scribal error for do·gart, which is the usual word for “call”.
Inflection
editComplex, class B II present, t preterite, é future, a subjunctive
1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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Present indicative | Deut. | ar·gair; ari·ngair (with infixed pronoun id-) | ara·ngairet (with infixed pronoun a-) | ||||||
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Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
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Preterite | Deut. | ar·gart, ar·gairt | |||||||
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Perfect | Deut. | ara·rogart (with infixed pronoun a-); arid·rogart (with infixed pronoun id-) | ar·rograd; ara·rograd (with infixed pronoun a-) | ||||||
Prot. | ·argart | ||||||||
Future | Deut. | ar·gérat | |||||||
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Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
Prot. | |||||||||
Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
Prot. | ·airgara | ||||||||
Past subjunctive | Deut. | arid·garad (with infixed pronoun id-) | |||||||
Prot. | |||||||||
Imperative | |||||||||
Verbal noun | irgaire, ergaire | ||||||||
Past participle | ergarthae, ærgarthae | ||||||||
Verbal of necessity |
Descendants
edit- Irish: urghair
Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
ar·gair | ar·gair pronounced with /-ɣ(ʲ)-/ |
ar·ngair |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ar·gair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 736.2, page 534
Categories:
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵeh₂r-
- Old Irish terms prefixed with ar-
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish verbs
- Old Irish terms with quotations
- Old Irish terms with rare senses
- Old Irish complex verbs
- Old Irish class B II present verbs
- Old Irish t preterite verbs
- Old Irish é future verbs
- Old Irish a subjunctive verbs