bongaid

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• bongaid, bongid, buingid

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From Proto-Celtic *bungeti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboŋʲɡʲiðʲ/

Verb

bongaid

1. to break
2. to cut
3. to reap
4. to pluck
5. to gather

Inflection

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

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Abs.			boingid
	Conj.	·buṅg						·bongar
	Rel.
Imperfect indicative
Preterite	Abs.
	Conj.			·bobaig			·bibsat, ·baichsead	·bocht
	Rel.
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Abs.	bibhsa
	Conj.			·biba			·bibhsiutt
	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

• Irish: bain

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
boingid	boingid pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mboingid
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), “bongaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 477