doairngir
Old Irish
Etymology
From to- + ar- + in- + gairid.
Verb
do·airngir (prototonic ·tairngir, verbal noun tairngire)
- to promise
- to foretell, prophesy
- Synonym: do·aurchain
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. | du·airngir, du·arngir, du·airngair | du·airngerat | ||||||
| Prot. | ·tairngir | ·tarngirther | |||||||
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | du·airngerthe | |||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | do·rairngert, dunda·rairgiurt (with infixed pronoun da-), dos·rerngart (with infixed pronoun s-) | du·rairrgirt | do·rairngert | to·airngertatur, dund·rairngertar (with infixed pronoun d-) | do·rairngerad, do·rairngered, do·rairngred | |||
| Prot. | ·tairrngert | ||||||||
| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | ·tairngérat | ||||||||
| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | ·tairngere | ||||||||
| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | tairngire | ||||||||
| Past participle | tairngirthe | ||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Descendants
- Middle Irish: tairngirid, tairrgirid
- Irish: tairngir
- Scottish Gaelic: targair
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| do·airngir | unchanged | do·n-airngir |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “do-airngir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language