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Old Irish
Etymology
From com- + beirid.
Verb
con·beir (verbal noun compert)
- to bring, bear together
- to beget, to conceive, bear offspring
Usage notes
- The two senses ("bring/bear together" and "conceive") seem to conjugate differently in the perfect and possibly other augmented forms. For "bring together", a suppletive stem com- + ro- + ·uic appears; while for "conceive, beget", a non-suppletive stem com- + ad- + ·beir occurs instead.
Inflection
Complex, class B I present, t preterite, é future, a subjunctive
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deut.
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con·biur
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con·beir
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con·berat
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con·birt
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con·bert
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·combairt
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cot·n-abairt (with infixed pronoun t-)
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conda·ruice (normalized conda·ruici, with pronoun da-)
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cota·ruicset (with infixed pronoun da-)
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deut.
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| past subjunctive
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deut.
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con·berad
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| verbal noun
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compert
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| past participle
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| verbal of necessity
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