immaig

Old Irish

Etymology

From imm- +‎ aigid.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [imˈaɣʲ]

Verb

imm·aig

  1. to drive around
    • 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. 66d18
      a n-imda·[a]ig Día
      (glossing Latin sic Deo imminente) when God drives them

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, t preterite, a future, a subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. imda·aig (with infixed pronoun da-) imid·agat
prot.
imperfect indicative deut.
prot.
preterite deut. imm·act
prot.
perfect deut. immub·racht (with infixed pronoun b-)
prot.
future deut.
prot.
conditional deut. immus·n-eblad (with infixed pronoun s-)
prot.
present subjunctive deut. im·aga[e]
prot.
past subjunctive deut.
prot.
imperative
verbal noun
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: do·immaig

Mutation

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

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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