arfen

Galician

arfen

inflection of arfar:
1. third-person plural present subjunctive
2. third-person plural imperative

ar- + Proto-Celtic *winati (“enclose”) (the Old Irish simplex *fenaid is unattested), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y- (“to weave, wind”); see also Sanskrit व्ययति (vyáyati), Latin vieō and Russian вить (vitʹ, “to wind, twist, weave”).

ar·fen (verbal noun airbe)

to fence off
- c. 700 the Irish Infancy Gospel of Thomas, published in "Two Old Irish Poems", in Ériu 18 (1958), pp. 1-27, edited and with translations by James Carney, stanza 1
  Imbu macán cóic bliadnae Ísu mac Dé bí, sénais dá huiscén dëac; arros·fí de crí. [MS. IMbu macan coigbliadhna iosa mac de bhi Senais da huiscen deac, ar ros fi de crí]
  When Jesus, son of the living God, was a little five-year-old boy, he blessed twelve small pools; he had fenced them in with clay.
to exclude

Complex, class B IV present, reduplicated preterite
		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd	singular	plural
present indicative	deut.			ar·fen			ar·fenat	ar·fenar
present indicative	prot.

imperfect indicative	deut.
imperfect indicative	prot.

preterite	deut.
preterite	prot.

perfect	deut.			arros·fí (with infixed pronoun s-)
perfect	prot.

future	deut.
future	prot.

conditional	deut.
conditional	prot.

present subjunctive	deut.
present subjunctive	prot.

past subjunctive	deut.
past subjunctive	prot.

imperative

verbal noun		airbe
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation of *ar·fen*
radical	lenition	nasalization
ar·fen	ar·ḟen	ar·fen pronounced with /β̃ʲ-/

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