dringo

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Welsh[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Welsh dringo, borrowed from Old Irish dringid, from Proto-Celtic *dringeti. The form expected if the Welsh was a direct inheritance would be *dryngu.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

dringo (first-person singular present dringaf)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to climb, to ascend, to scale

Conjugation[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
dringo ddringo nringo unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, page 286