infét

Old Irish

Etymology

From a mixture of in- and ind- +‎ Proto-Celtic *wēdeti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [inˈɸʲeːd]

Verb

in·fét

1. to tell

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			in·fét
	Prot.	·ecguth (com- form)
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.			in·cuaid
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.			in·fé
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.				in·fesmais
	Prot.
Imperative		indiad
Verbal noun
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Descendants

• ⇒ Middle Irish: indisid
  • Irish: inis
  • Manx: insh
  • Scottish Gaelic: innis

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
in·fét	in·ḟét	in·fét pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/
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), “ind-fét, in-fét”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language