cetabí
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *kantabwiyeti, from *kanta- + *buyeti. Cognate with Welsh canfod.[1]
By surface analysis, cét- (“with”) + ·bí (“habitual present form of at·tá”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʲe.daˈbiː/
Inflection
Complex, class A III present, á preterite, e subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Deut. | ceta·bí | cita·biat | ||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ceta·bíinn | |||||||
| Prot. | ·cetfanad | ||||||||
| Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ceta·roba | |||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Conditional | Deut. | cita·mbénn | cita·mbetis | ||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Deut. | cita·bé | |||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | cétbaid | ||||||||
| Past participle | |||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| ceta·bí | ceta·bí pronounced with /-v(ʲ)-/ |
ceta·mbí |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kanta-bwi-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 188
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ceta-bí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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