adopair

Old Irish

Etymology

From ad- +‎ uss- +‎ beirid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aðˈo.bəɾʲ/
  • (Blasse) [aðˈo.bɪɾʲ]
  • (Griffith) [aðˈo.bɨɾʲ]

Verb

ad·opair (prototonic ·idbair or ·edbair, verbal noun idbart or edbart)

1. to offer
2. to offer up, sacrifice

For quotations using this term, see Citations:adopair.

Conjugation

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

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.			ad·opair				ad·obarar, ad·oparar; ad·opar (with haplological syncope)	ad·opartar, ad·obartar
	prot.			·idbair, ·edbair			·idbarat	·idparar
imperfect indicative	deut.							ad·oparthe
	prot.
preterite	deut.			ad·opart			at·opartat (with infixed pronoun t-)
	prot.						·edbartatar
perfect	deut.			ad·ropart			ad·robartat, ad·rópartadar; at·ropartatar (with infixed pronoun t-)	ad·roipred
	prot.
future	deut.			ata·opéra (with infixed pronoun da-)			atob·opérat (with infixed pronoun dob-)
	prot.
conditional	deut.	at·hopérainn (with infixed pronoun t-)
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative			edbair
verbal noun		·idbart, ·edbart
past participle		edberthe
verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Irish: íobair
• Scottish Gaelic: ìobair

Mutation

Mutation of ad·opair

radical	lenition	nasalization
ad·opair (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	ad·opair	ad·n-opair

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), “ad·opair”, 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, § 665.8, page 468