conboing

Old Irish

Etymology

com- +‎ bongaid

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [konˈboŋʲ]

Verb

con·boing (verbal noun combach) (abbreviated ɔ·boing)

  1. to break
    • 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. 4d15
      In Belzefuth: is béss didu ind lïacc benir il-béim friss, et intí do·thuit foir ɔ·boing a chnámi, intí fora tuit-som immurgu at·bail-side.
      The Beelzebub: it is the custom, then, of the stone that many blows are hit against it, and he who falls upon it breaks his bones; however, he whom it falls on perishes

Conjugation

Complex, class B III present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. ɔ·boing con·bongar
prot.
imperfect indicative deut.
prot.
preterite deut.
prot. ·combaig
perfect deut.
prot.
future deut. ɔ·bibustar
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut.
prot.
past subjunctive deut. con·bosad
prot.
imperative
verbal noun combach
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of con·boing
radical lenition nasalization
con·boing con·boing
pronounced with /β-/		 con·mboing

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

Further reading

  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 669, page 477
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