dringo

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh dringo, borrowed from Old Irish dringid, from Proto-Celtic *dringeti. The form expected if the Welsh was a direct inheritance would be *dryngu.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdrɪŋɔ/

Verb

dringo (first-person singular present dringaf)

  1. (ambitransitive) to climb, to ascend, to scale

Conjugation

Conjugation (literary)
singular plural impersonal
first second third first second third
present indicative/future dringaf dringi dring dringwn dringwch dringant dringir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/
conditional
dringwn dringit dringai dringem dringech dringent dringid
preterite dringais dringaist dringodd dringasom dringasoch dringasant dringwyd
pluperfect dringaswn dringasit dringasai dringasem dringasech dringasent dringasid, dringesid
present subjunctive dringwyf dringych dringo dringom dringoch dringont dringer
imperative dring dringed dringwn dringwch dringent dringer
verbal noun dringo
verbal adjectives dringedig
dringadwy
Conjugation (colloquial)
inflected
colloquial forms
singular plural
first second third first second third
future dringa i,
dringaf i
dringi di dringith o/e/hi,
dringiff e/hi
dringwn ni dringwch chi dringan nhw
conditional dringwn i,
dringswn i
dringet ti,
dringset ti
dringai fo/fe/hi,
dringsai fo/fe/hi
dringen ni,
dringsen ni
dringech chi,
dringsech chi
dringen nhw,
dringsen nhw
preterite dringais i,
dringes i
dringaist ti,
dringest ti
dringodd o/e/hi dringon ni dringoch chi dringon nhw
imperative dringa dringwch

Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of dringo
radical soft nasal aspirate
dringo ddringo nringo unchanged

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

References

  1. ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, page 286