indaim

Old Irish

Etymology

From ind- +‎ Proto-Celtic *ameti (“to wash”), of contested origin.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [in͈dˈaβ̃ʲ]

Verb

ind·aim (verbal noun indmat or indlat)

to wash hands or feet
Synonym: nigid
- 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. 126^c17
  Cot·n-essiu-sa huam chosaib, amal con·estar findchoire i nn-indmatar cossa.
  I trample him with my feet, as a water-pot in which feet are washed is trampled.
- c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 43, pages 115-179:
  Iss ed fo·gní leusom: indmat lam iar n-imbirt aibne, cid do aurlégund soscéle teis neuch iar tabirt feich, cid do cucin, nó do nach ráod aliu; ind·aim a láma.
  This is their practice: to wash their hands after plying the scourge, whether it be to read aloud the gospels that a man goes after doing penance, or whether it be to the kitchen, or to any other matter — he washes his hands.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present
		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd	singular	plural
present indicative	deut.			ind·aim
present indicative	prot.								·indmatar

imperfect indicative	deut.
imperfect indicative	prot.

preterite	deut.
preterite	prot.

perfect	deut.
perfect	prot.

future	deut.
future	prot.

conditional	deut.
conditional	prot.

present subjunctive	deut.
present subjunctive	prot.

past subjunctive	deut.
past subjunctive	prot.

imperative

verbal noun		indmat; indlat
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

Middle Irish: indmaid

Mutation

Mutation of *ind·aim*
radical	lenition	nasalization
ind·aim (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	ind·aim	ind·n-aim

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

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*am-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 31

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ind-aim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language