doinfet

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ ind- + Proto-Celtic *swizdeti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doˈhinʲ.ɸʲəd/, [doˈhinʲ.ɸʲed]

Verb

do·infet (verbal noun tinfed)

1. to blow, breathe
2. to inspire
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 4^a27

     Coïr irnigde trá inso, act ní chumcam-ni ón, mani thinib in spirut.

     This, then, is the right way to pray, but we cannot do that unless the spirit inspires it.

Conjugation

Complex, class B I present, s subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.			dund·infet (with infixed pronoun d-)	don·infedam
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.							do·rinfess
	prot.
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.			·tinib
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		tinfed
past participle		tinfeste
verbal of necessity

Further reading

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