doairngir

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ ar- +‎ in- +‎ gairid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [doˈharʲŋʲɡʲirʲ]

Verb

do·airngir (prototonic ·tairngir, verbal noun tairngire)

1. to promise
   • 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. 74^c20

     Húare ro·comallada inna imneda ⁊ fo·ruirmed cenn forsnaib cotarsnaib du·rairngirt-siu, is fíri{ri}én trá fuä n-indas sin tabart díglae foraibsom.

     Because the troubles have been fulfilled, and an end has been put to the adversities that you sg have promised, it is just, then, to inflict vengeance on them in that way.

Inflection

Complex, 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.
Present indicative	Deut.			du·arngir, du·airngir, du·airngair			du·airngerat
	Prot.			·tairngir				·tarngirther
Imperfect indicative	Deut.							du·airngerthe
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.	do·rairngert; dunda·rairgiurt (with infixed pronoun da-); dos·rerngart (with infixed pronoun s-)	du·rairngirt	do·rairngert			to·airngertatur; dund·rairngertar (with infixed pronoun d-)	do·rairngerad, do·rairngred, do·rairngered
	Prot.			·tairrngert
Future	Deut.
	Prot.						·tairngérat
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.		·tairngere
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		tairngire
Past participle		tairngirthe
Verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: tairngirid, tairrgirid
  • Irish: tairngir
  • Scottish Gaelic: targair

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
do·airngir (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	do·n-airngir
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), “do-airngir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language