doinfet
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom to- + ind- + Proto-Celtic *swizdeti.[1]
Pronunciation
editVerb
editdo·infet (verbal noun tinfed)
- to blow, breathe
- to inspire
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 4a27
- Coïr irnigde trá inso, act ní chumcam-ni ón, mani thinib in spirut.
- This, then, is the right way to pray, but we cannot do that unless the spirit inspires it.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 4a27
Conjugation
editComplex, class B I present, s subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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| Present indicative | Deut. | dund·infet (with infixed pronoun d-) | don·infedam | ||||||
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| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Preterite | Deut. | do·rinfess | |||||||
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| Perfect | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | ·tinib | ||||||||
| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | tinfed | ||||||||
| Past participle | tinfeste | ||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
References
edit- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*swizd-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 365
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “doinfet”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language