níbo

Old Irish

Etymology

ní +‎ ba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈn͈ʲiːbo/

Verb

níbo

1. inflection of is:
   1. third-person singular past indicative negative
   2. third-person singular present subjunctive negative
   • 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. 27^c9

     Níbo in tain no·mbeid ar súil tantum do·gneith toil far coimded.

     It must not be when you pl are seen (by him) only that you do your master’s will.

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
níbo also nníbo after a proclitic ending in a vowel	níbo pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.