bongaid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *bungeti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboŋɡəðʲ/

Verb

bongaid (conjunct ·boing, verbal noun búain)

1. to break
2. to cut
3. to reap
   • c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from Bodleian MS Laud 610, Corm. La 137

     Nipsa eola imnid odbaig, ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbuṅg.

     I was not acquainted with knotty tribulations, although I reap blistered seaweed.

4. to pluck
5. to gather

Inflection

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Abs.			boingid
	Conj.	·buṅg						·bongar
	Rel.			bongas
Imperfect indicative
Preterite	Abs.
	Conj.			·bobaig				·bocht
	Rel.			buich
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Abs.	bibhsa
	Conj.			·biba			·bibsat
	Rel.
Conditional
Present subjunctive	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.			bóus
Past subjunctive
Imperative
Verbal noun		búain, boing
Past participle		bochta
Verbal of necessity

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

Derived terms

• con·boing
• do·boing

Descendants

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

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
bongaid	bongaid pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbongaid
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
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 477