doairbir

Old Irish

FWOTD – 22 February 2020

Etymology

From to- +‎ ar- +‎ beirid.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [doˈharʲβʲirʲ]

Verb

do·airbir (prototonic ·tairbir, verbal noun terbirt) (transitive, attested mostly in the passive)

  1. to bend
  2. to subdue, to (cause to) bow down
    • 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. 22c10
      Is bés trá dosom anísiu cosc inna mban i tossug et a tabairt fo chumacte a feir, armbat irlamu de ind ḟir fo chumacte Dǽi, co·mbí íarum coscitir ind ḟir et do·airbertar fo réir Dǽ.
      This, then, is a custom of his, to correct the wives at first and to bring them under the power of their husbands, so that the husbands may be the readier under God’s power, so that afterwards the husbands are corrected and bowed down in subjection to God.
    • c. 760 Blathmac mac Con Brettan, published in "A study of the lexicon of the poems of Blathmac Son of Cú Brettan" (2017; PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth), edited and with translations by Siobhán Barrett, stanza 166
      Is é dod·n-árbart – scél caín – íarum fo láma Ioäin condon·forgaib – glése glan – di phecad ar senathar.
      It is he who lowered himself (fair tidings) thereafter under the hands of John, so that he has seized us — pure brightness — from the sin of our ancestors.
    • c. 808, Félire Oengusso, Epilogue, page 267; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:
      Dom·rairbera m'aite co Crist,
      May my teacher subdue me under Christ...
  3. to yield, to surrender

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, t preterite, é future, a subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. do·airbir du·erbarar do·airbertar
prot. ·tairbir ·tarberar
imperfect indicative deut.
prot.
preterite deut. dod·nárbart (relative with infixed pronoun d-) du·arbartha
prot. ·torpart
perfect deut. do·rairbert
prot.
future deut.
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut. dom·rairbera (ro-form with infixed pronoun m-) du·erberthar
prot.
past subjunctive deut.
prot.
imperative tairbertar
verbal noun terbirt
past participle tairberthae, tairbirthe
verbal of necessity

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: tairbrid

Mutation

Mutation of do·airbir
radical lenition nasalization
do·airbir
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)		 do·airbir do·n-airbir

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

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