Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From to- +‎ boingid.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

do·boing (prototonic ·tobuing, verbal noun tobach)

  1. to exact, to wrest
  2. to levy
    • c. 650 Do Fastad Cirt ocus Dligid, published in Ancient Laws of Ireland: Uraicecht Becc and Certain Other Selected Brehon Law Tracts (1901, Dublin: Stationery Office), edited and with translations by W. Neilson Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander George Richey, and Robert Atkinson, vol. 5, pp. 425-494, page 440
      Ma día n-adbul etlaiter ní ón úasal [f]il ar in dámrud, .i. tríun a eneclainni fein ata in ríg ré fer in tige and ⁊ fer in tige ré toibig eneclainni don rig isin isin cethramad crich tar gabail mara;
      If anything of importance is stolen from a noble who is at a banquet, the king sues for one-third of his own compensation from the man of the house, and the man of the house levies that compensation in the fourth territory beyond an arm of the sea;

Inflection edit

Descendants edit

  • Middle Irish: toibgid
  • Middle Irish: tobaigid (denominal from the verbal noun)

Mutation edit

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

Further reading edit