asboind

Old Irish

Etymology

From uss- +‎ Proto-Celtic *bundeti.

Verb

as·boind (verbal noun opad)

1. to refuse
   • 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. 20^b6

     conim·op

     so that he should not refuse me (glossing Latin non detractet)

Usage notes

Was often confused with ad·boind (“to give notice”).

Inflection

Complex, class B III present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.							as·bonnar
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.			at·bobuid (with infixed pronoun t-)
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Deut.			ad·buib
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.			as·bó; as·rob (ro-form)
	Prot.		·obais	·op, ·oip
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		opad
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: opaid, oipdid
  • Irish: ob
  • Scottish Gaelic: ob
  • Manx: obb

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
as·boind	as·boind pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/	as·mboind
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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