astoing
Old Irish
Etymology
From a conflation of Proto-Celtic *exsstungeti (“to bend out”) and tongaid (“to swear”). The two verbs are genetically unrelated.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /asˈtoŋʲɡʲ/
Verb
as·toing (prototonic ·eitig, verbal noun etech)
- to refuse
- c. 800–900, Serglige Con Chulainn, from the Lebor na hUídre, published in Serglige Con Culainn, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series 14, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1953, edited by Myles Dillon, section 26
- Ní ettis nech cena domanches.
- May you not refuse anyone... [unintelligible; without a cow? except in the case of bad service? without a burdensome retinue (if read as cena dáim n-ainceisse]?
- Sechtae, published in Ancient Laws of Ireland: Uraicecht Becc and Certain Other Selected Brehon Law Tracts (1901, Dublin: Stationery Office), edited and with translations by W. Neilson Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander George Richey, and Robert Atkinson, vol. 5, pp. 117-373, page 176
- [...] ben is·toing cach richt, ate mná ind-so ná dlé lóg-enech.
- ...women who refuse [food] to every kind of person, these are the women who do not deserve any honour-price.
- c. 800–900, Serglige Con Chulainn, from the Lebor na hUídre, published in Serglige Con Culainn, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series 14, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1953, edited by Myles Dillon, section 26
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. | as·toing | |||||||
| Prot. | ·eitig | ·eitegar | |||||||
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | at·cuitig | |||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Deut. | as·tó | |||||||
| Prot. | ·ettis | ||||||||
| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | etech | ||||||||
| Past participle | |||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Descendants
- Middle Irish: etchid
- Irish: eitigh
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| as·toing | as·thoing | as·toing pronounced with /-d(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “as-toing”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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