dingid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dingeti, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ-.

Verb

dingid (conjunct ·ding)

1. to press
2. to thrust
   • Niníne's Prayer, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 322, line 4

     Dedaig diumsachu la f[or]tacht ar Fíadat findnime.

     He thrust down the proud with the help of our Lord in fair Heaven.

Conjugation

Simple, 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	Abs.
	Conj.			·ding			·dengat	·dengar
	Rel.
Imperfect indicative		·dinginn
Preterite	Abs.			dedaig
	Conj.						·dedgatar
	Rel.
Perfect	Deut.							ro·decht
	Prot.		·rudedach
Future	Abs.							didhiostair (normalized didistair)
	Conj.
	Rel.
Conditional
Present subjunctive	Abs.
	Conj.							·diastar	·diassatar
	Rel.
Past subjunctive
Imperative				dinged
Verbal noun
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• for·ding
• ar·utaing
• con·utaing

Descendants

• Irish: ding

References

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