indaim
Old Irish
Etymology
From ind- + Proto-Celtic *ameti (“to wash”), of contested origin.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [in͈dˈaṽʲ]
Verb
ind·aim (verbal noun indmat or indlat)
- to wash hands or feet
- Synonym: nigid
- 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. 126c17
- Cot·n-essiu-sa huam chosaib, amal con·estar findchoire i nn-indmatar cossa.
- I trample him with my feet, as a water-pot in which feet are washed is trampled.
- c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 43, pages 115-179:
- Iss ed fo·gní leusom: indmat lam iar n-imbirt aibne, cid do aurlégund soscéle teis neuch iar tabirt feich, cid do cucin, nó do nach ráod aliu; ind·aim a láma.
- This is their practice: to wash their hands after plying the scourge, whether it be to read aloud the gospels that a man goes after doing penance, or whether it be to the kitchen, or to any other matter — he washes his hands.
Inflection
Complex, class B I present
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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| Present indicative | Deut. | ind·aim | |||||||
| Prot. | ·indmatar | ||||||||
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Perfect | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Verbal noun | indmat; indlat | ||||||||
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Descendants
- Middle Irish: indmaid
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| ind·aim | unchanged | ind·n-aim |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*am-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 31
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ind-aim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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