immdíben

Old Irish

Etymology

From imm- (“circum-”) +‎ dí- (“de-”) +‎ benaid (“to strike”), in imitation of Latin circumcidō.

Verb

imm·díben (verbal noun imdibe)

1. to excise
2. to circumcise

For quotations using this term, see Citations:immdíben.

Inflection

Complex, class B IV present

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.							im·dibenar
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.							·imdibed
perfect	deut.							imme·ruidbed (relative)
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.							imdibthe
imperative					imdibnem
verbal noun		imdibe
past participle		imdibthe
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of imm·díben

radical	lenition	nasalization
imm·díben	imm·díben pronounced with /ðʲ-/	imm·ndíben

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), “imm-díben”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language