indaim

Old Irish

Etymology

From ind- +‎ Proto-Celtic *ameti (“to wash”), of contested origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [in͈dˈaβ̃ʲ]

Verb

ind·aim (verbal noun indmat or indlat)

1. to wash hands or feet

   Synonym: nigid

   • 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. 126^c17

     Cot·n-essiu-sa huam chosaib, amal con·estar findchoire i nn-indmatar cossa.

     I trample him with my feet, as a water-pot in which feet are washed is trampled.

   • c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 43, pages 115-179:

     Iss ed fo·gní leusom: indmat lam iar n-imbirt aibne, cid do aurlégund soscéle teis neuch iar tabirt feich, cid do cucin, nó do nach ráod aliu; ind·aim a láma.

     This is their practice: to wash their hands after plying the scourge, whether it be to read aloud the gospels that a man goes after doing penance, or whether it be to the kitchen, or to any other matter — he washes his hands.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.			ind·aim
	prot.								·indmatar
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		indmat; indlat
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: indmaid

Mutation

Mutation of indaim

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

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), “ind-aim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language