congair
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /konˈɡarʲ/
Verb
con·gair
- to call, to summon
- c. 875, Comrac Líadaine ocus Cuirithir, published in Liadain and Curithir: an Irish love-story of the ninth century (1902, London: Nutt), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, page 16, line 3
- ...conid Líadain con·gairiu cach banscál nád athgniniu.
- ...so Líadain is what I call every woman whom I do not know.
- c. 875, Comrac Líadaine ocus Cuirithir, published in Liadain and Curithir: an Irish love-story of the ninth century (1902, London: Nutt), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, page 16, line 3
- to invite
Inflection
Complex, class B II present, t preterite, é future, a subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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| Present indicative | Deut. | con·gairiu | con·gair; cotagair (with infixed pronoun ta-) | con·gairet | con·gairther | con·gairter | |||
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| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Preterite | Deut. | con·gart; cota·gart (with infixed pronoun ta-) | con·gartat | ||||||
| Prot. | ·comgrad | ||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | con·acart | con·acartatar | ||||||
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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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Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “congair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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