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cetabí

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *kantabwiyeti, from *kanta- +‎ *bwiyeti. Cognate with Welsh canfod.[1]

By surface analysis, cét- (with) +‎ ·bí (habitual present form of at·tá).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ceta·bí (verbal noun cétbaid)

  1. to feel, perceive, sense

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cetabí.

Inflection

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Mutation

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Mutation of cetabí
radical lenition nasalization
ceta·bí ceta·bí
pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/
ceta·mbí

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

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kanta-bwi-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 188

Further reading

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