conbeir

Old Irish

Etymology

From com- +‎ beirid.

Verb

con·beir (verbal noun compert)

1. to bring, bear together
2. to beget, to conceive, bear offspring

Usage notes

• The two senses ("bring/bear together" and "conceive") seem to conjugate differently in the perfect and possibly other augmented forms. For "bring together", a suppletive stem com- +‎ ro- +‎ ·uic appears; while for "conceive, beget", a non-suppletive stem com- +‎ ad- +‎ ·beir occurs instead.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, t preterite, é future, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.	con·biur		con·beir			con·berat
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.		con·birt	con·bert
	Prot.		·combairt
Perfect	Deut.		cot·n-abairt (with infixed pronoun t-)	conda·ruice (normalized conda·ruici, with pronoun da-)			cota·ruicset (with infixed pronoun da-)
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.			con·berad
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		compert
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

References

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