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Old Irish
Etymology
Prefixed with to- + ess-. Related to as·féna (“to swear, testify, attest to”). Their base ·féna is from Proto-Celtic *wetnati, from Proto-Indo-European *weth₂- (“to say”).[1]
Verb
do·aisféna (prototonic ·taisféna, verbal noun taisbénad)
- to show, exhibit
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 18d7
.i. narraui eis .i. do·airfenus doib dús imbed comrorcon and et ni robe.- narravi eis, i.e. I reported it to them to see if by chance there might be error within, and there wasn't any.
Inflection
Complex, class A I present, s preterite, a subjunctive
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·taisfentar
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do·airfenus
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dos·airfen (with infixed pronoun s-)
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·tarfen
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| Present subjunctive
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do·aisbena; do·airfena (ro-form)
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·taisfena
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taisfentar
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| Verbal noun
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taisbénad
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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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do·aisféna
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
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unchanged
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do·n-aisféna
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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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References
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “doaisféna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 720, page 517