doboing

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ bongaid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [doˈboŋʲɡʲ]

Verb

do·boing (prototonic ·tobuing, verbal noun tobach)

1. to exact, to wrest
2. to levy
   • c. 650 Do Fastad Cirt ocus Dligid, published in Ancient Laws of Ireland: Uraicecht Becc and Certain Other Selected Brehon Law Tracts (1901, Dublin: Stationery Office), edited and with translations by W. Neilson Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander George Richey, and Robert Atkinson, vol. 5, pp. 425-494, page 440

     Ma día n-adbul etlaiter ní ón úasal [f]il ar in dámrud, .i. tríun a eneclainni fein ata in ríg ré fer in tige and ⁊ fer in tige ré toibig eneclainni don rig isin isin cethramad crich tar gabail mara;

     If anything of importance is stolen from a noble who is at a banquet, the king sues for one-third of his own compensation from the man of the house, and the man of the house levies that compensation in the fourth territory beyond an arm of the sea;

Inflection

Complex, class B III present, s preterite, s future, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			do·boing			do·bongat	do·bongar	do-bongatar
	Prot.			·tobuing			·toibget; ·torbongat (ro-form)	·tobongar
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.			do·cumbaig (com-form)					do·combachta (com-form)
	Prot.			·tochumbaig (com-form); ·tóerbaig, ·torbaig; ·topaig (od-form)				·tópacht (od-form)
Future	Deut.	do·bibus					dom·bibsat (with infixed pronoun m-)	do·bibustar
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.			do·bó			do·bosat	do·bosar, do·bostar
	Prot.		·turbais, ·torbais (ro-form)	·toib; ·toirb (ro-form)			·tochmat (com-form)	·tochmastar
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative			toboing
Verbal noun		tobach
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: toibgid
  • Irish: toibhigh
• ⇒ Middle Irish: tobaigid (denominal from the verbal noun)
  • Irish: tabhaigh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
do·boing	do·boing pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/	do·mboing
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), “doboing”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 477