doaisféna

Old Irish

Etymology

Prefixed with to- +‎ ess-. Related to as·féna (“to swear, testify, attest to”). Their base ·féna is from Proto-Celtic *wetnati, from Proto-Indo-European *weth₂- (“to say”).[1]

Verb

do·aisféna (prototonic ·taisféna, verbal noun taisbénad)

  1. to show, exhibit
    • 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. 18d7
      .i. narraui eis .i. do·airfenus doib dús imbed comrorcon and et ni robe.
      narravi eis, i.e. I reported it to them to see if by chance there might be error within, and there wasn't any.

Inflection

Complex, class A I present, s preterite, a subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut.
prot. ·taisfentar
imperfect indicative deut.
prot.
preterite deut.
prot.
perfect deut. do·airfenus dos·airfen (with infixed pronoun s-)
prot. ·tarfen
future deut.
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut. do·aisbena; do·airfena (ro-form)
prot. ·taisfena
past subjunctive deut.
prot.
imperative taisfentar
verbal noun taisbénad
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: taisbénaid, taispénaid
    • Irish: taispeáin
    • Scottish Gaelic: taisbean
    • Manx: taishbyn

Mutation

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

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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wet-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 418

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