fording
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dɪŋ
Noun
fording (plural fordings)
- The act by which something is forded.
- 1953, Aldo Leopold, Round River:
- By half past seven we were both pretty nearly all in, and wet from innumerable fordings of the river, so we stopped and boiled some hot water with the sugar left over from lunch.
- Fording place
- 1910, Rabindranath Tagore, “Gitanjali”, in Gitanjali and Fruit-Gathering, New York: Macmillan, published 1918, page 69:
- There at the fording in the little boat the unknown man plays upon his lute.
Old Irish
Inflection
Complex, class B III present, reduplicated preterite, s subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Deut. | for·dengat | for·dengar | ||||||
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| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | for·ndinginn | |||||||
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| Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Perfect | Deut. | for·rudedach | for·rudedgatar | ||||||
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| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Deut. | for·ndiassatar | |||||||
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| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | fortige | ||||||||
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| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
References
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fording”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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