Old Irish

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Etymology

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From to- +‎ íarm- +‎ fo- +‎ uss- +‎ reithid.

Verb

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do·íarmórat (verbal noun tíarmóracht)

  1. to follow
    • 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. 21c3
      ...co ndermanammar-ni inna imned-sin i mbiam isind laithiu tri chumsanad inna aidche dod·íarmórat...
      ...so that we may forget those troubles in which we are in the day through the repose of the night that follows it...
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 136a1
      .i. um do glanad i nderiud ferso dég is úa guthaigthi in fers in·tinnscana dod·íarmórat.
      i.e. -um is to be elided at the end of a verse, because the verse which follows it begins with a vowel.

Inflection

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Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
do·íarmórat unchanged do·n-íarmórat
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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