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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)
- 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
Ní 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
Complex, class B III present, reduplicated preterite, s subjunctive
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as·toing
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·eitig
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at·cuitig
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as·tó
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·ettis
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| Verbal noun
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etech
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| Past participle
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| Verbal of necessity
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Descendants
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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Lenition |
Nasalization
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as·thoing
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as·toing
pronounced with /-d(ʲ)-/
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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