forben
Old Irish
Verb
for·ben
- to strike, to smite
- c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, published in Táin Bó Cúailnge. Recension I (1976, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Cecile O'Rahilly, TBC-I 1353
- Bentai Cú Chulaind cona chlaidiub asa díb n-axalaib co torchair a étach de, ⁊ ní forbai ima chnes.
- Cú Chulainn struck him [Etarcomol] with his sword under his armpits so that his garments fell off of him, yet he did not cut into his skin.
- c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, published in Táin Bó Cúailnge. Recension I (1976, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Cecile O'Rahilly, TBC-I 1353
Inflection
Complex, class B IV present, reduplicated preterite
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Deut. | fordom·benat (with infixed pronoun dom-) | |||||||
| Prot. | ·fairben | ||||||||
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | ·forbai | ||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
References
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “forben”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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