Appendix:Old Irish class B V present verbs

Old Irish class B V verbs (Strachan's A2; McCone's S3 with i vocalism) are derived from Proto-Celtic verbs ending in, from Proto-Indo-European athematic verbs with a nasal infix before w (singular , plural ). They correspond to Ancient Greek verbs ending in and to Sanskrit class 5 verbs (e.g., which corresponds to ). The stem-final n is always non-palatalized, and exists only in the present stem; there is no n in the future, subjunctive, or preterite stems of these verbs.

The inflection is almost identical to that of class B IV; the difference is that the root vowel in most cases is i, showing that the vowel after the n must have been u in Proto-Celtic.

No absolute forms are attested.

Basic pattern
A sample verb of this subclass is (found in //). The endings are as follows (note that several of the endings are delenited after the root-final n):

Deponent pattern
A sample verb of this subclass is :