Language: Old Irish
Contributors: Elisa Roma
Complex verb
Verb meaning: MEET [meet]
Comment: MEET by chance, happen to meet; the basic meaning of the verb is HIT; compound of ·icc 'come, reach' with 3 preverbs
the impersonal construction with a default 3SG verb form and two prepositional arguments (or an infixed pronoun for meeter) is deemed older than the personal construction where the met person is the subject (met person befalls to meeter); the personal construction has therefore been considered as an alternation. A similar impersonal construction occurs with the verb do·cuirethar. The case governed by the preposition ar in uncertain (dat or acc)
Schema: V.3SG do+1-dat ar+2-acc
| # | Microrole | Coding set | Argument type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meeter | do+NP-dat | X |
| 2 | met person | ar+NP-acc | X |
| (152) |
nicon·ibdis bandai cormmai i tír cualand cía bith ara·tecmainged dóib nicon-ibdis NEG-drink.IMPF.3PL bandai drop.ACC cormmai beer.GEN i in tír land.DAT cualand cualand.GEN cía who bith be.IMPF.3SG ar-a-tecmainged on-REL-meet.IMPF.3SG dóib to.3PL they used not to drink a drop of beer in Tír Cúalann, whomsoever they might happen to meet. Comment: CorPH labels bith as an imperfect indicative form of the copula, eDIL of the substantive verb (s.v. 1 cía, B.c); case governed by ar uncertain |
| Alternation | Derived coding frame | Alternation class | Occurs | Comment | # Ex. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
