gníid

Old Irish

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From Proto-Celtic *gniyeti, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʲnʲiː.iðʲ/

Verb

gníid (conjunct ·gní, verbal noun gním)

1. to do
2. to work

Conjugation

Simple, class A III present, reduplicated s preterite, é future, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Abs.			gníid				·gníther	gnítir
	Conj.	·gníu		·gní		·gníid
	Rel.			gnís			gníte		gníter
Imperfect indicative				·gníad
Preterite	Abs.			génais
	Conj.			·géni			·génset	·gníth	·gnítha
	Rel.
Perfect	Deut.			ro·géni			ro·génset	ro·gníth	ro·gnítha
	Prot.
Future	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.			génas			génde
Conditional
Present subjunctive	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.						gnete
Past subjunctive					·gnemmis		·gnetis
Imperative
Verbal noun		gním
Past participle		gnethae
Verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• con·gní
• do·gní

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
gníid	gníid pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	ngníid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gníid”, 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 540