congair

Old Irish

Etymology

com- +‎ gairid

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konˈɡarʲ/

Verb

con·gair

1. to call, to summon
   • c. 875, Comrac Líadaine ocus Cuirithir, published in Liadain and Curithir: an Irish love-story of the ninth century (1902, London: Nutt), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, page 16, line 3

     ...conid Líadain con·gairiu cach banscál nád athgniniu.

     ...so Líadain is what I call every woman whom I do not know.

2. to invite

Inflection

Complex, class B II 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.	con·gairiu		con·gair; cotagair (with infixed pronoun ta-)			con·gairet	con·gairther	con·gairter
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.			con·gart; cota·gart (with infixed pronoun ta-)			con·gartat
	prot.							·comgrad
perfect	deut.			con·acart			con·acartatar
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun
past participle
verbal of necessity

Further reading

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