bongaid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *bungeti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboŋ.ɡəðʲ/
  • (Blasse) [ˈboŋ.ɡɪðʲ]
  • (Griffith) [ˈboŋ.ɡɨðʲ]

Verb

bongaid (conjunct ·boing, verbal noun búain)

1. to break
2. to cut
3. to reap
   • c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from Bodleian MS Laud 610, Corm. La 137

     Nipsa eola imnid odbaig, ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbuṅg.

     I was not acquainted with knotty tribulations, although I reap blistered seaweed.

4. to pluck
5. to gather

Inflection

Simple, class B III present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	abs.			boingid
	conj.	·buṅg						·bongar
	rel.			bongas
imperfect indicative
preterite	abs.
	conj.			·bobaig				·bocht
	rel.			buich
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	abs.	bibhsa
	conj.			·biba			·bibsat
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.
	rel.			bóus
past subjunctive
imperative
verbal noun		búain, boing
past participle		bochta
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• con·boing
• do·boing

Descendants

• Middle Irish: boingid, buingid
  • ⇒ Irish: bain (“to take, reap, dig out”)

Mutation

Mutation of bongaid

radical	lenition	nasalization
bongaid	bongaid pronounced with /β-/	mbongaid

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “boingid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913), Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 477