boingid

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• buingid

Etymology

From Old Irish bongaid, from Proto-Celtic *bungeti.

Pronunciation

• (earlier) IPA^(key): /ˈboŋʲɡʲəðʲ/
• (later) IPA^(key): /ˈboŋʲɡʲəɣʲ/

Verb

boingid

1. to break, cut
2. to reap, pluck
3. to gather

Descendants

• ⇒ Irish: bain (“to take, reap, dig out”)

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
boingid	boingid pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mboingid
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), “boingid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language