adfét

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

ad- + Proto-Celtic *wēdeti, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (to see). The unlenited final /d/ of the third-person singular originated in the prototonic form *·andewēðeθ, where a regular rule of syncope produced *·andewēðθ, which underwent delenition to *·andewēdd; the /d/ then spread to the deuterotonic form.[1]

This verb uses the prefix com- to mark perfective forms. The perfect ad·cuaid is from ad- + com- + ·fíad.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aðˈfʲeːd/

Verb

ad·fét

  1. to declare, tell, relate
  2. to ascribe
  3. to pronounce

For quotations using this term, see Citations:adfét.

Inflection

Most prototonic forms as well as the verbal noun are supplied by in·fét

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
ad·fét ad·ḟét ad·fét
pronounced with /-v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. Karin Stüber (1998) The Historical Morphology of n-stems in Celtic (Maynooth Studies in Celtic Linguistics; III), Maynooth: The Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, →ISBN, page 126

Further reading

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