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Old Irish
Etymology
From for- + benaid.
Verb
for·ben
- to strike, to smite
- c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, published in Táin Bó Cúailnge. Recension I (1976, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Cecile O'Rahilly, TBC-I 1353
Bentai Cú Chulaind cona chlaidiub asa díb n-axalaib co torchair a étach de, ⁊ ní forbai ima chnes.- Cú Chulainn struck him with his sword under his armpits so that his garments fell off of him, yet he did not cut into his skin.
Inflection
Complex, class B IV present, reduplicated preterite
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Deut.
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fordom·benat (with infixed pronoun dom-)
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·fairben
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·forbai
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| Conditional
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Deut.
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| Present subjunctive
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| Past subjunctive
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| Verbal noun
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| Past participle
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| Verbal of necessity
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