ditá

See also: dita, Dita, DITA, and dîta

Old Irish

Etymology

From dí- +‎ ·tá, likely a calque of Latin distō.

The prefix dí- usually appears as do· in pretonic position, but not in the only attested deuterotonic form of this verb, di·taam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʲiˈtɑː/

Verb

di·tá (prototonic ·dithá, verbal noun debuith)

1. to differ, be different

   Synonym: dechraigidir

   • 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. 117^b9

     di·taam-ni .i. dechrigmir-ni ón

     We stand apart i.e. we differ thus

Inflection

Complex, class A III present

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.				di·taam
	Prot.						·dithát
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		debuith
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do-tá”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 647.3, page 442