íarfaigid
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Old Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]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. 11b21
- .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.
- 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. 11b21
Inflection
[edit]Feminine i-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | íarfaigid | íarfaigidL | íarfaigthiH |
Vocative | íarfaigid | íarfaigidL | íarfaigthiH |
Accusative | íarfaigidN | íarfaigidL | íarfaigthiH |
Genitive | íarfaigtheoH, íarfaigtheaH | íarfaigtheoH, íarfaigtheaH | íarfaigtheN |
Dative | íarfaigidL | íarfaigthib | íarfaigthib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
íarfaigid (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-íarfaigid |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “íarfaigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language