bongaid
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *bungeti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈboŋɡəðʲ/
Verb
bongaid (conjunct ·boing, verbal noun búain)
- to break
- to cut
- to reap
- c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from Bodleian MS Laud 610, Corm. La 137
- Nipsa eola imnid odbaig, ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbuṅg.
- I was not acquainted with knotty tribulations, although I reap blistered seaweed.
- c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from Bodleian MS Laud 610, Corm. La 137
- to pluck
- to gather
Inflection
Simple, class B III present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Abs. | boingid | |||||||
| Conj. | ·buṅg | ·bongar | |||||||
| Rel. | bongas | ||||||||
| Imperfect indicative | |||||||||
| Preterite | Abs. | ||||||||
| Conj. | ·bobaig | ·bocht | |||||||
| Rel. | buich | ||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Future | Abs. | bibhsa | |||||||
| Conj. | ·biba | ·bibsat | |||||||
| Rel. | |||||||||
| Conditional | |||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Abs. | ||||||||
| Conj. | |||||||||
| Rel. | bóus | ||||||||
| Past subjunctive | |||||||||
| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | búain, boing | ||||||||
| Past participle | bochta | ||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Derived terms
- con·boing
- do·boing
Descendants
- Middle Irish: boingid, buingid
- Irish: bain
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| bongaid | bongaid pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ | mbongaid |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bongaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 477