trisgata
Old Irish
Etymology
From tre (“through”) + gataid (“take off”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tr͈isˈɡada/
Verb
tris·gata (verbal noun tregatt)
- to pierce
- c. 815-840, published in "The Monastery of Tallaght", in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (1911-1912, Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Edward J. Gwynn and Walter J. Purton, vol. 29, pp. 115–179, paragraph 85,
- Is in deniu aibritid tres·ngata na huile dúile súas co ricci riched.
- Faster than the blink of an eye, [the sign of the Cross] traverses [lit. pierces through] all the elements up to heaven.
- c. 815-840, published in "The Monastery of Tallaght", in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (1911-1912, Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Edward J. Gwynn and Walter J. Purton, vol. 29, pp. 115–179, paragraph 85,
Conjugation
Complex, class A I present, s preterite
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Deut. | tris·gataim | tres·ngata (nasalized) | tris·ngatat (nasalized) | |||||
| Prot. | trecatim | ||||||||
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Perfect | Deut. | dris·rogat | |||||||
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| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | tregatt | ||||||||
| Past participle | tragdae | ||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Descendants
- Middle Irish: tregtaid
- Irish: treaghd
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| tris·gata | tris·gata pronounced with /-ɣ(ʲ)-/ | tris·ngata |
| 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) , “tregtaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language