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Galician
Verb
arfen
- inflection of arfar:
- third-person plural present subjunctive
- third-person plural imperative
Old Irish
Etymology
ar- + Proto-Celtic *winati (“enclose”) (the Old Irish simplex *fenaid is unattested), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y- (“to weave, wind”); see also Sanskrit व्ययति (vyáyati), Latin vieō and Russian вить (vitʹ, “to wind, twist, weave”).
Pronunciation
Verb
ar·fen (verbal noun airbe)
- to fence off
- c. 700 the Irish Infancy Gospel of Thomas, published in "Two Old Irish Poems", in Ériu 18 (1958), pp. 1-27, edited and with translations by James Carney, stanza 1
Imbu macán cóic bliadnae Ísu mac Dé bí, sénais dá huiscén dëac; arros·fí de crí. [MS. IMbu macan coigbliadhna iosa mac de bhi Senais da huiscen deac, ar ros fi de crí]- When Jesus, son of the living God, was a little five-year-old boy, he blessed twelve small pools; he had fenced them in with clay.
- to exclude
Inflection
Complex, class B IV present, reduplicated preterite
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ar·fenar
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airbe
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Mutation
Mutation of arfen
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nasalization
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ar·ḟen
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ar·fen
pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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