immaig

Old Irish

Etymology

From imm- +‎ aigid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [imˈaɣʲ]

Verb

imm·aig

1. to drive around
   • 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. 66^d18

     a n-imda·[a]ig Día

     (glossing Latin sic Deo imminente) when God drives them

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, t preterite, a future, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			imda·aig (with infixed pronoun da-)			imid·agat
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.			imm·act
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.			immub·racht (with infixed pronoun b-)
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.			immus·n-eblad (with infixed pronoun s-)
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.		im·aga[e]
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Descendants

• ⇒ Middle Irish: do·immaig
  • ⇒ Irish: tiomáin

Mutation

Mutation of immaig

radical	lenition	nasalization
imm·aig (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	imm·n-aig

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “immaig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 451