frisbrudi

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Old Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Le Mair proposes a novel etymology for this verb, reconstructing a Proto-Celtic *brodīti, derived from an o-grade causative/iterative formation Proto-Indo-European *bʰredʰ- (to wade, ford) only otherwise attested in Balto-Slavic. She explains the verb's meaning as arising from a figure of speech in which a rejected person would be forced to wade across a proverbial aquatic crossing, like a ford.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /fʲrʲisˈbru.ðʲi/

Verb[edit]

fris·brudi (verbal noun frithbruduth)

  1. to refuse, reject
    Synonym: as·toing
    • 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. 44b12
      .i. indí fris·brudi .i. di·sluindi ón.
      i.e. of he who refuses, i.e. that is, who denies.

Inflection[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
fris·brudi fris·brudi
pronounced with /-v(ʲ)-/
fris·mbrudi
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Le Mair, Esther (2011 September 30) Secondary Verbs in Old Irish: A comparative-historical study of patterns of verbal derivation in the Old Irish Glosses, Galway: National University of Ireland, page 216

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