frisbrudi

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Old Irish

Etymology

Le Mair proposes a novel etymology for this verb, reconstructing a Proto-Celtic *brodīti, derived from an o-grade causative/iterative formation Proto-Indo-European *bʰredʰ- (to wade, ford) only otherwise attested in Balto-Slavic. She explains the verb's meaning as arising from a figure of speech in which a rejected person would be forced to wade across a proverbial aquatic crossing, like a ford.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

fris·brudi (verbal noun frithbruduth)

  1. to refuse, reject
    Synonym: as·toing
    • 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. 44b12
      .i. indí fris·brudi .i. di·sluindi ón.
      i.e. of he who refuses, i.e. that is, who denies.

Inflection

Mutation

Mutation of frisbrudi
radical lenition nasalization
fris·brudi fris·brudi
pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/
fris·mbrudi

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Le Mair, Esther (2011 September 30) Secondary Verbs in Old Irish: A comparative-historical study of patterns of verbal derivation in the Old Irish Glosses, Galway: National University of Ireland, page 216

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