Appendix:Old Irish class B II present verbs

Old Irish class B II verbs (Strachan's A3, McCone's S2) are derived from Proto-Celtic verbs ending in *-yeti, which are derived from Proto-Indo-European verbs ending in *-yeti or *-yéti and correspond to the Latin third conjugation i-stems (e.g. speciō) and Sanskrit class 4 verbs (e.g. पश्यति (paśyati)). The final consonant of the stem is palatalized throughout, meaning that any consonant-initial endings also start with a palatalized consonant.

The endings of the class are the same as for class A II, except for the third-person singular conjunct nondeponent, which ends in the stem-final consonant, not in -i as in the weak conjugation.

See Category:Old Irish class B II present verbs for a list of verbs belonging to this class.

A sample verb for this class is gaibid (“to hold, take”). The endings are as follows:

See Appendix:Old Irish delenition for the change of ending-initial ⟨th⟩ to ⟨t⟩ after certain consonants. An example of a verb with widespread delenition is guidid (“to pray”):

Depalatalization can be found in the prototonic forms of complex verbs, where syncope brings a nonpalatalized consonant into contact with a palatalized consonant, causing the entire cluster to be nonpalatalized. An example is the prototonic forms of fo·daim (“to endure, allow”):

A sample verb for this class is midithir (“to judge”). As with class A II, the deponent verbs of this class take a linking vowel between the stem and many of the endings. The endings are as follows:

• McCone, Kim (1997) The Early Irish Verb (Maynooth Monographs 1), 2nd edition, Maynooth: An Sagart, →ISBN, page 31
• Strachan, John, Bergin, Osborn (1949) Old-Irish Paradigms and Selections from the Old-Irish Glosses, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN, pages 34–43
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, pages 352–79; reprinted 2017