conétet

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• ɔ·étet (abbreviation)

Etymology

com- +‎ in- +‎ téit

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konˈeːdʲed/

Verb

con·étet (prototonic ·cométig, verbal noun com(a)itecht or cométecht)

1. to indulge
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 6^c7

     Léic úait inna bíada milsi et tomil innahí-siu do·mmeil do chenél arnáp hésom con·éit détso.

     Put away from you sg the sweet foods, and consume those that your race consumes, so that it may not be he who is indulgent to you.

Conjugation

Complex, class B I present, suffixless preterite, s future, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			con·étet; cot·étet (with infixed pronoun t-)		con·éitgid
	Prot.			·cométig
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.			cot·rétiguir (with infixed pronoun t-)
	Prot.
Future	Deut.			con·éit
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.			con·éit				·cométestar
	Prot.		·coméitis		·cométsam
Past subjunctive	Deut.						con·éitsitis
	Prot.
Imperative				coméitged
Verbal noun		comitecht, comaitecht; cométecht
Past participle		comitesta
Verbal of necessity		comitesti

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “con·éitet”, 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, pages 644–45