dofuthracair
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From dí- + fo- + tre- and Proto-Celtic *ānk-, a reduplicated perfective derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- (“to curve, bend”). See the English verb incline for comparable semantics.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
do·futhracair (prototonic ·dúthracair, verbal noun dúthracht)
- to desire, wish for
- 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. 14b6
- Ní luc[h]t Corint nammá dia nduthraccar-sa a maith si[n]; acht da·duthraccar donaib huilib nóibaib file i n-Achaia.
- It is not only the Corinthians I wish good things to; I also wish that to all the saints who are in Achaea.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 52
- ...cia dud·futharcair a bas.
- ...even as [Abimelech] desired for [David's] death.
- 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. 14b6
Inflection edit
This verb is defective; it lacks a present stem. Instead, the preterite is used with present meaning.
Complex, suffixless preterite, s future, s subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Preterite | Deut. | da·duthraccar (with infixed pronoun a-) | do·dúthracair, dud·futharcair | do·futhractar, du·futharctar | |||||
| Prot. | ·duthracar | ·duthracmar | |||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Future | Deut. | dun·futharset | |||||||
| Prot. | ·dudrastar | ||||||||
| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Deut. | do·duthris, do·futhris | |||||||
| Prot. | ·dúthrais | ||||||||
| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | ·duthrised | ||||||||
| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | dúthracht | ||||||||
| Past participle | |||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Mutation edit
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| do·futhracair | do·ḟuthracair | do·futhracair pronounced with /-v(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References edit
- ^ Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, pages 140–41
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “do-futhraccair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language