cetabí

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kantabwiyeti, from *kanta- +‎ *buyeti. Cognate with Welsh canfod.

By surface analysis, cét- (“with”) +‎ ·bí (“habitual present form of at·tá”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʲe.daˈbiː/

Verb

ceta·bí (verbal noun cétbaid)

1. to feel, perceive, sense

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cetabí.

Inflection

Complex, class A III present, á preterite, e subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			ceta·bí			cita·biat
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.	ceta·bíinn
	Prot.			·cetfanad
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.	ceta·roba
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.	cita·mbénn					cita·mbetis
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.			cita·bé
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		cétbaid
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ceta·bí	ceta·bí pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/	ceta·mbí
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), “ceta-bí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language