fording

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dɪŋ

Verb

fording

1. present participle and gerund of ford

Noun

fording (plural fordings)

1. The act by which something is forded.
   • 1953, Aldo Leopold, Round River:

     By half past seven we were both pretty nearly all in, and wet from innumerable fordings of the river, so we stopped and boiled some hot water with the sugar left over from lunch.

2. Fording place
   • 1910, Rabindranath Tagore, “Gitanjali”, in Gitanjali and Fruit-Gathering‎, New York: Macmillan, published 1918, page 69:

     There at the fording in the little boat the unknown man plays upon his lute.

Old Irish

Etymology

From for- +‎ dingid.

Verb

for·ding

1. to crush, to oppress

Inflection

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

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.						for·dengat	for·dengar
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.	for·ndinginn
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.		for·rudedach				for·rudedgatar
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.								for·ndiassatar
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		fortige
past participle
verbal of necessity

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fording”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language