Old Irish

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Etymology

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Two kinds of possible derivations are known:

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ind·árban (verbal noun indarpe or indarbae)

  1. to expel, banish
    • 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. 56a22
      Nacham·indarbanar-sa fo chomt⟨h⟩ururasib inna ndíummassach.
      Let me not be expelled under the incursions of the proud.

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • Irish: ionnarb

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
ind·árban
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged ind·n-árban
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Strachan, John (1949) Osborn Bergin, editor, Old-Irish Paradigms and Selections from the Old-Irish Glosses, fourth edition, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN, page 191
  2. ^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 664.8, page 463
  3. ^ Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, page 153

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