berbaid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *berwāti, denominal verb from *berwos (“stew”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲeɾ.βəðʲ/
  • (Blasse) [ˈbʲeɾ.βɪðʲ]
  • (Griffith) [ˈbʲeɾ.βɨðʲ]

Verb

berbaid (prototonic ·berba, verbal noun bruith)

1. to boil, cook

Conjugation

Simple, class A I present, a subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	abs.
	conj.			·berba
	rel.
imperfect indicative
preterite	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.	berba
	conj.			·berba
	rel.
past subjunctive
imperative
verbal noun		bruith
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Irish: bearbh, beirbh
• ⇒ Middle Irish: beirbigid
  • Irish: beirigh

Mutation

Mutation of berbaid

radical	lenition	nasalization
berbaid	berbaid pronounced with /βʲ-/	mberbaid

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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