ardíbdai

Old Irish

Etymology

From ar- +‎ dí- +‎ báidid (“to drown”).

Verb

ar·díbdai

1. to extinguish, quench
   • 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. 48^c33

     indi ar·dibdai .i. is dibdud dun tenid a choscrad ⁊ assreud.

     of him who extinguishes, i.e. its scattering and dispersion is extinction to the fire.

Inflection

Complex, class A II present, s preterite

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			ar·díbdai			arda·díbdat (with infixed pronoun da-)
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.			ar·rudibaid
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ar·díbdai	ar·díbdai pronounced with /-ð(ʲ)-/	ar·ndíbdai
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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