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Old Irish
Etymology
com- + gairid
Pronunciation
Verb
con·gair
- to call, to summon
- c. 875, Comrac Líadaine ocus Cuirithir, published in Liadain and Curithir: an Irish love-story of the ninth century (1902, London: Nutt), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, page 16, line 3
...conid Líadain con·gairiu cach banscál nád athgniniu.- ...so Líadain is what I call every woman whom I do not know.
- to invite
Inflection
Complex, class B II present, t preterite, é future, a subjunctive
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