Old Irish

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Etymology

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From imm- +‎ aigid.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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imm·aig

  1. to drive around
    • 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. 66d18
      a n-imda·[a]ig Día
      (glossing Latin sic Deo imminente) when God drives them

Inflection

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Complex, class B I present, t preterite, a future, a subjunctive
1st sg 2nd sg 3rd sg 1st pl 2nd pl 3rd pl passive sg passive pl
present indicative deut. imda·aig (with infixed pronoun da-) imid·agat
prot.
imperfect indicative deut.
prot.
preterite deut. imm·act
prot.
perfect deut. immub·racht (with infixed pronoun b-)
prot.
future deut.
prot.
conditional deut. immus·n-eblad (with infixed pronoun s-)
prot.
present subjunctive deut. im·aga[e]
prot.
past subjunctive deut.
prot.
imperative
verbal noun
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: do·immaig

Mutation

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Mutation of immaig
radical lenition nasalization
imm·aig
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged imm·n-aig

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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