aband

See also:AbandandA band

English

aband(third-person singular simple presentabands,present participleabanding,simple past and past participleabanded)

(obsolete,transitive)To desist in practicing, using, or doing; to renounce.[attested only in the late 16th century]^[1]
(obsolete,transitive)To desert; to forsake.[attested only in the late 16th century]^[1]
- 1590,Edmund Spenser,Fairie Queene, Second Booke, Canto X.‎^[1],page108:
  Two brethren were their Capitaines, which hight
  HengiſtandHorſus,well approov’d in warre,
  And both of them men of renowmed might;
  Who making vantage of their civill iarre,
  And of thoſe forreiners, which came from farre,
  Grew great, and got large portions of land,
  That in the Realme ere long they ſtronger arre,
  Then they which ſought at firſt their helping hand,
  AndVortigerenforc’t the kingdome toaband.

↑^1.0^1.1Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “aband”, inThe Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles,5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.:Oxford University Press,→ISBN,page 2.

abandf

Mutation ofaband
radical	lenition	nasalization
aband	unchanged	n-aband

Note:Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

ābandm

Declension ofāband(masculine a-stem)

ābandm