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Old Irish
Etymology
From ar- + fo- + Proto-Celtic *emeti.
Pronunciation
Verb
ar·foím (conjunct ·eroím)
- to accept, to receive
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 6d14
Ar is dó arroi·éit-sa gratiam do precept do chách.- For it is for it that I have received grace, to preach to every one.
- to accept, to agree
Inflection
Complex, class B I present, t preterite, a future, a subjunctive
Mutation
Mutation of arfoím
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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| ar·foím
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ar·ḟoím
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ar·foím
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.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ar·foím”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, pages 511–513