boingid

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• buingid

Etymology

From Old Irish bongaid, from Proto-Celtic *bungeti.

Pronunciation

• (earlier) IPA^(key): /ˈboŋʲɡʲəðʲ/
• (later) IPA^(key): /ˈboŋʲɡʲəɣʲ/

Verb

boingid

1. to break, cut
2. to reap, pluck
3. to gather

Descendants

• ⇒ Irish: bain (“to take, reap, dig out”)

Mutation

Mutation of boingid

radical	lenition	nasalization
boingid	boingid pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mboingid

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Middle 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), “boingid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language