astoing

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Old Irish

Etymology

From a conflation of Proto-Celtic *exsstungeti (to bend out) and tongaid (to swear). The two verbs are genetically unrelated.

Pronunciation

Verb

as·toing (prototonic ·eitig, verbal noun etech)

  1. to refuse
    • c. 800–900, Serglige Con Chulainn, from the Lebor na hUídre, published in Serglige Con Culainn, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series 14, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1953, edited by Myles Dillon, section 26
      ettis nech cena domanches.
      May you not refuse anyone... ?
    • Sechtae, published in Ancient Laws of Ireland: Uraicecht Becc and Certain Other Selected Brehon Law Tracts (1901, Dublin: Stationery Office), edited and with translations by W. Neilson Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander George Richey, and Robert Atkinson, vol. 5, pp. 117-373, page 176
      [...] ben is·toing cach richt, ate mná ind-so ná dlé lóg-enech.
      ...women who refuse to every kind of person, these are the women who do not deserve any honour-price.

Inflection

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: etchid

Mutation

Mutation of astoing
radical lenition nasalization
as·toing as·thoing as·toing
pronounced with /-d(ʲ)-/

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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