immfreccair
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Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From imm- + frith- + gairid, or more directly imm- + fris·gair (“to respond”).
Verb
[edit]imm·freccair (verbal noun imfrecrae)
- to correspond
Usage notes
[edit]The verb must be used with a third-person infixed pronoun, usually a-, but s- also appears in late texts.
Inflection
[edit]Complex, class B II present
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Deut. | imme·frecrat | |||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | imma·frecraidis | |||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | imfrecrae | ||||||||
| Past participle | |||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “imm-freccair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language