argair

Old Irish

Etymology

From ar- +‎ gairid.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [arˈɡarʲ]

Verb

ar·gair (verbal noun irgaire, ergaire)

  1. to forbid
    • 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. 69a21
      Co n-epred, “Du·gén a nnoíb sa ⁊ ní digén ⟨a n-⟩ærgarthae se, cid accubur lium”; ní eper insin.
      So that he should say, “I will do this holy thing and I will not do this forbidden thing, though it is a desire of mine”; he does not say that.
    • 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. 132a10
      ci a{s}⟨r⟩id·roga⟨r⟩t dímsa do guidi-siu, a Dǽ
      although he has forbidden me to pray to you, O God
  2. to herd
  3. (rare) to call

Usage notes

The sense “call” occurs only once: the form ar·gart may be a scribal error for do·gart, which is the usual word for “call”.

Inflection

Complex, class B II present, t preterite, é future, a subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. ar·gair; ari·ngair (with infixed pronoun id-) ara·ngairet (with infixed pronoun a-)
prot.
imperfect indicative deut.
prot.
preterite deut. ar·gart, ar·gairt
prot.
perfect deut. ara·rogart (with infixed pronoun a-); arid·rogart (with infixed pronoun id-) ar·rograd; ara·rograd (with infixed pronoun a-)
prot. ·argart
future deut. ar·gérat
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut.
prot. ·airgara
past subjunctive deut. arid·garad (with infixed pronoun id-)
prot.
imperative
verbal noun irgaire, ergaire
past participle ergarthae, ærgarthae
verbal of necessity

Descendants

  • Irish: urghair

Mutation

Mutation of ar·gair
radical lenition nasalization
ar·gair ar·gair
pronounced with /ɣ-/		 ar·ngair

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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