ocubí

Old Irish

Etymology

From oc +‎ ·bí (habitual present of at·tá (“to be”)).^[1]^[2] Compounds of that verb were often confused with those from benaid (“to strike”) in early Irish, leading to stem-final -n- in some present forms.

The m in prototonic forms appears to be due to interference from the prefix com-.^[3]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [oɡuˈbʲiː]

Verb

ocu·bí (prototonic ·ocmi, verbal noun ocmad)

to touch
- 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. 53^b17
  ocu·bether .i. comaicsigfid Día dún tri sodin
  shall be touched, i.e. God will bring [it] near to us through that

Conjugation

Complex, class A III and B IV present, á preterite, a future, a subjunctive
		1st sg	3rd sg	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.		ocmo·bhí			ocu·bendar
present indicative	prot.		·rocmi (ro-form)		·occmaither	·ocmanatar

imperfect indicative	deut.
imperfect indicative	prot.

preterite	deut.
preterite	prot.

perfect	deut.		occu·robae
perfect	prot.

future	deut.			ocu·bïat	ocu·bether
future	prot.		·rocma (ro-form)

conditional	deut.
conditional	prot.

present subjunctive	deut.
present subjunctive	prot.

past subjunctive	deut.
past subjunctive	prot.

imperative

verbal noun		ocmad
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of *ocubí*
radical	lenition	nasalization
ocu·bí	ocu·bí pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/	ocu·mbí

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

References

^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 647.9, page 444
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ocuben”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 848, page 525; reprinted 2017

[1] Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 647.9, page 444

[2] Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ocuben”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

[3] Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 848, page 525; reprinted 2017

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