imfen

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Old Irish

Etymology

From imm- + Proto-Celtic *winati (“bend, enclose”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y- (“to weave, wind”). Cognate with Sanskrit वयति (váyati), व्ययति (vyáyati), Latin vieō and Russian вить (vitʹ, “to wind, twist, weave”).

Pronunciation

Verb

im·fen (verbal noun imbe)

  1. to hedge in, fence in
    • 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. 112b17
      a nonda imbide
      and when you sg are hedged in

Conjugation

Complex, class B IV present, a subjunctive
1st sg. 2nd sg. 3rd sg. 1st pl. 2nd pl. 3rd pl. Passive sg. Passive pl.
Present indicative Deut. im·fen
Prot.
Imperfect indicative Deut.
Prot.
Preterite Deut.
Prot.
Perfect Deut.
Prot.
Future Deut.
Prot.
Conditional Deut.
Prot.
Present subjunctive Deut.
Prot. ·ímcua (with perfective com-) ·ímcuaad (with perfective com-)
Past subjunctive Deut. imma·feithe (with infixed pronoun a-)
Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun imbe
Past participle imbide, imbithe
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
im·fen im·ḟen im·fen
pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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