desimrecht

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• deissemrecht, desemmrecht, desmeirecht, desmerecht, desmrecht, dessemrecht, dessimrecht

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʲesʲimʲrʲext/

Noun

desimrecht n (genitive desimrechta)

1. example
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 31^c11

     mad in chrud so bemmi .i. co comalnammar a pridchimme et comman dessimrecht do chách

     if this is how we will be [lit. ‘if it is (in) this way that we will be’], i.e. that we may fulfill what we preach and may be an example to everyone

Declension

Neuter u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	desimrechtN	desimrechtL	desimrechtL, desimrechta
Vocative	desimrechtN	desimrechtL	desimrecht
Accusative	desimrechtN	desimrechtL	desimrecht
Genitive	desimrechtoH, desimrechtaH	desimrechtoN, desimrechtaN	desimrechtN, desimrechteN
Dative	desimrechtL	desimrechtaib	desimrechtaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: deisimreacht, deismireacht

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
desimrecht	desimrecht pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndesimrecht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “desimrecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language