conboing

Old Irish

Etymology

com- +‎ bongaid

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [konˈboŋʲ]

Verb

con·boing (verbal noun combach) (abbreviated ɔ·boing)

1. to break
   • 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. 4^d15

     In Belzefuth: is béss didu ind lïacc benir il-béim friss, et intí do·thuit foir ɔ·boing a chnámi, intí fora tuit-som immurgu at·bail-side.

     The Beelzebub: it is the custom, then, of the stone that many blows are hit against it, and he who falls upon it breaks his bones; however, he whom it falls on perishes

Conjugation

Complex, class B III present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			ɔ·boing				con·bongar
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.			·combaig
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Deut.							ɔ·bibustar
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.			con·bosad
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		combach
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
con·boing	con·boing pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/	con·mboing
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), 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 477