doairngir

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ ar- +‎ in- +‎ gairid.

Verb

do·airngir (prototonic ·tairngir, verbal noun tairngire)

1. to promise
2. to foretell, prophesy

   Synonym: do·aurchain

Inflection

Complex, class B II present, t preterite, é future, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			du·arngir, du·airngir, du·airngair			du·airngerat
	Prot.			·tairngir				·tarngirther
Imperfect indicative	Deut.							du·airngerthe
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.	do·rairngert; dunda·rairgiurt (with infixed pronoun da-); dos·rerngart (with infixed pronoun s-)	du·rairrgirt	do·rairngert			to·airngertatur; dund·rairngertar (with infixed pronoun d-)	do·rairngerad, do·rairngred, do·rairngered
	Prot.			·tairrngert
Future	Deut.
	Prot.						·tairngérat
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.		·tairngere
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		tairngire
Past participle		tairngirthe
Verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: tairngirid, tairrgirid
  • Irish: tairngir
  • Scottish Gaelic: targair

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
do·airngir	unchanged	do·n-airngir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do-airngir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language