doairngir

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Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ ar- +‎ in- +‎ gairid.

Pronunciation

Verb

do·airngir (prototonic ·tairngir, verbal noun tairngire)

  1. to promise
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 74c20
      Húare ro·comallada inna imneda ⁊ fo·ruirmed cenn forsnaib cotarsnaib du·rairngirt-siu, is fíri{ri}én trá fuä n-indas sin tabart díglae foraibsom.
      Because the troubles have been fulfilled, and an end has been put to the adversities that you sg have promised, it is just, then, to inflict vengeance on them in that way.

Inflection

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: tairngirid, tairrgirid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
do·airngir
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged do·n-airngir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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