forbrissi

Old Irish

Etymology

From for- +‎ brisid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɸorˈbʲrʲisʲi]

Verb

for·bris(s)i (verbal noun forbris(s)iud)

1. to rout (completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat)
   • 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. 67^b24

     Inna c{h}enél fo·rrorbris, fos·roammámigestar dïa molad ⁊ dïa adrad.

     The peoples whom he has routed, he has subjugated them to his praise and to his worship.

Inflection

Complex, class A II present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.								for·bristea
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.			fo·rrorbris (with irregular prefixation of ro-)
	Prot.
Future	Deut.							for·brisfither
	Prot.			·forbrisbedar
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.						fortan·bristis (with infixed pronoun dan-)		for·brissitis
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		forbrisiud, forbrissiud
Past participle		forbriste
Verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Irish: forbhriseadh (from the verbal noun)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
for·brissi	for·brissi pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/	for·mbrissi
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), “for-brissi”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 672, page 478