frisben

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• fris·tá

Etymology

From frith- +‎ ·tá (“to exist”). Compound formations of ·tá or bíid, due to similar non-present stems, tended to be confused with those of benaid in early Irish. The true etymology is also apparent in the verbal noun frepaid, which must be related to buith, the verbal noun of at·tá.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɸʲɾʲisˈbʲen/

Verb

fris·ben (verbal noun frepaid)

1. to heal
   • 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. 19^d12

     fris·mbïa glosses mediri … adgreditur

   • 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. 96^b15

     fris·bïa glosses medebitur

Inflection

Complex, class B IV and A III present, a future, a subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.			fris·ben; fritum·thá (with infixed pronoun dom-)
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	deut.			fris·bïa
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.			fris·bïa
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		frepaid
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of fris·ben

radical	lenition	nasalization
fris·ben	fris·ben pronounced with /βʲ-/	fris·mben

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), “frisben”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language