arpeti

Old Irish

Etymology

From ar- +‎ séitid (“to blow”), possibly semantically arising from the use of oral literature and musical instruments for entertainment. The deuterotonic stem-initial p- is a back-formation from the lenited stem-initial -f- seen in prototonic forms. In this case, the -f- etymologically came from the lenition of the *sw- from Proto-Celtic *swizdeti, not a lenition of p-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /arˈpʲedʲi/

Verb

ar·peti (verbal noun airfitiud)

  1. to entertain, amuse
    • c. 775, “Táin Bó Fraích”, in Book of Leinster; republished as Ernst Windisch, editor, Táin bó Fraích, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1974, line 259:
      Gabthus mesca[e] ⁊ arus·peittet céola ⁊ airfiti.
      Intoxication seizes them, music and entertainment perform for them.
    • Codex Sancti Pauli, published in "Poems in the Codex S. Pauli", in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus : a collection of Old-Irish glosses, Scholia prose and verse (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. 2, pp. 293-295, Poem V, stanza 8
      Oc cormaim gaibtir dúana, drengaitir dreppa dáena, ar·beittet bairtni bindi tri laith linni ainm n-Áeda.
      At ale, songs are chanted, fine [genealogical] ladders are climbed, and sweet [bardic] songs extol [lit. entertains], through pools of liquor, the name of Áed.
    • c. 808, Félire Oengusso, Epilogue, line 79; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:
      Ar·peti cech díne do thoscélad féle.
      [The Félire Óengusso] entertains every group in ascertaining [the dates of celebratory] festivals.

Inflection

Complex, class A II present
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. ar·peti ar·beittet; arus·peittet (with infixed pronoun s-)
prot.
imperfect indicative deut.
prot.
preterite deut.
prot.
perfect deut.
prot.
future deut.
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut.
prot.
past subjunctive deut.
prot.
imperative
verbal noun airfitiud
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of ar·peti
radical lenition nasalization
ar·peti ar·pheti
or unchanged		 ar·peti
pronounced with /bʲ-/

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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