forben – Old Irish verb conjugation

Old Irish verb forms of forben

forben

Present

3rd sing.forben
2nd plur.forbene
For the machine-generated forms (marked with mono-space font), C.f. tinaid, sroiglid.

Nominal Forms

Verbal Nounforbend
For the machine-generated forms (marked with mono-space font), C.f. etarscara.

Sample Sentences

  • Bentai Cú Chulaind cona chlaidiub asa díb n-axalaib co torchair a étach de, ⁊ ní forbai ima chnes. (Cú Chulainn struck him [Etarcomol] with his sword under his armpits so that his garments fell off of him, yet he did not cut into his skin.) [c. 700–800, Táin Bó Cúailnge; published in Táin Bó Cúailnge. Recension I (1976, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Cecile O'Rahilly , TBC-I 1353:]

Etymology

From for- + benaid.