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The Future of Old Irish imm·aig

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Vernam Hull
Vernam Hull*
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New York University
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Abstract

[Like the other compounds of the root ag-, the OIr. verb imm·aig should regularly form a suppletivistic future imm·ebla from the stem ebl-. Though imm·ebla actually occurs in a rhetorical text, its identification hitherto has been obscured by tmesis.]

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Miscellanea
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Language , Volume 16 , Issue 3: July-September , September 1940, pp. 209 - 210
Copyright
Copyright © 1940 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 H. Lewis and H. Pedersen, A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar 335, identify ebl- with the root el-, ela-, whereas J. Pokorny as well as R. Thurneysen connect it with Lat. pellere; cf. ZfCP 13.107. For a collection of the future forms, see IF 38.195 f.

2 Cf. Miscellany Presented to Kuno Meyer 63.

3 Cf. K. Meyer, Über die älteste irische Dichtung 2.22 n.4.

4 Cf. Miscellany Presented to Kuno Meyer 63. Here immus n̓-eblaid is really future perfect, but Irish possesses no special endings for this tense.

5 Cf. R. Thurneysen, Zu irischen Handschriften und Literaturdenkmälern 1.52, 1.31.

6 The other MS reads: hiphus codeirc domhain Saxain amicil immais hua Corc hebl-.

7 Or Cuircc.

8 Ed. K. Meyer, ZfCP 12.238, §65.

9 Cf. tola n-echtrand 'na re . . . Aurscartad n-echtrand.

10 In the Bethu Phátraic ed. K. Mulchrone 1.73, which was compiled about 900 A.d., Patrick requests the angel of the Lord not to allow the Saxons to inhabit Ireland. The source of the Bethu Phátraic has, however, barbarae gentes for Saxain; cf. op.cit. 1.72.