íarfaigid

Old Irish

From íarm- +‎ fo- +‎ saigid.

íarfaigid f (genitive íarfaigtho)

verbal noun of íarmi·foich: asking, inquiry
- 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. 11^b21
  .i. ni áil dúib a íarfigid, arna·rala for cubus airi.
  i.e. it is not proper for you to ask it, lest your conscience should suffer because of it.

Feminine i-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	íarfaigid	íarfaigid^L	íarfaigthi^H
Vocative	íarfaigid	íarfaigid^L	íarfaigthi^H
Accusative	íarfaigid^N	íarfaigid^L	íarfaigthi^H
Genitive	íarfaigtheo^H, íarfaigthea^H	íarfaigtheo^H, íarfaigthea^H	íarfaigthe^N
Dative	íarfaigid^L	íarfaigthib	íarfaigthib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation of *íarfaigid*
radical	lenition	nasalization
íarfaigid (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-íarfaigid

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