doinfet

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ ind- + Proto-Celtic *swizdeti.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /doˈhinʲ.ɸʲəd/, [doˈhinʲ.ɸʲed]

Verb

do·infet (verbal noun tinfed)

  1. to blow, breathe
  2. to inspire
    • 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. 4a27
      Coïr irnigde trá inso, act ní chumcam-ni ón, mani thinib in spirut.
      This, then, is the right way to pray, but we cannot do that unless the spirit inspires it.

Conjugation

Complex, class B I present, s subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. dund·infet (with infixed pronoun d-) don·infedam
prot.
imperfect indicative deut.
prot.
preterite deut. do·rinfess
prot.
perfect deut.
prot.
future deut.
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut.
prot. ·tinib
past subjunctive deut.
prot.
imperative
verbal noun tinfed
past participle tinfeste
verbal of necessity

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*swizd-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 365

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