adopair

Old Irish

Etymology

From ad- +‎ uss- +‎ beirid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aðˈobɨrʲ]

Verb

ad·opair (prototonic ·idbair or ·edbair, verbal noun idbart or edbart)

1. to offer
2. to offer up, sacrifice

Conjugation

Complex, class B I present, t preterite, é future, a subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.			ad·opair				ad·obarar, ad·oparar; ad·opar (with haplological syncope)	ad·opartar, ad·obartar
	prot.			·idbair, ·edbair			·idbarat	·idparar
imperfect indicative	deut.							ad·oparthe
	prot.
preterite	deut.			ad·opart			at·opartat (with infixed pronoun t-)
	prot.						·edbartatar
perfect	deut.			ad·ropart			ad·robartat, ad·rópartadar; at·ropartatar (with infixed pronoun t-)	ad·roipred
	prot.
future	deut.			ata·opéra (with infixed pronoun ta-)			atob·opérat (with infixed pronoun tob-)
	prot.
conditional	deut.	at·hopérainn (with infixed pronoun t-)
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative			edbair
verbal noun		·idbart, ·edbart
past participle		edberthe
verbal of necessity

Quotations

• 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. 44^c17

  atam·roipred [translating consecratus sum]

  I have been offered up

Descendants

• Irish: íobair
• Scottish Gaelic: ìobair

Mutation

Mutation of adopair

radical	lenition	nasalization
ad·opair (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	ad·n-opair

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), “ad·opair”, in 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, § 665.8, page 468