Old Irish

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Etymology

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to- +‎ aith- +‎ ·cuirethar, prototonic of fo·ceird.

Verb

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do·aithchuiredar (verbal noun taidchor)

  1. to return
    • 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. 18b6
      u redeunte .i. a ndo·n-aithchuiredar .u. iterum
      u redeunte: when the u returns again
    • 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. 72d1
      .i. iarsindí bes tuidchisse deichtrib i ndoíri dochum dethribo ⁊ du·n-athfoichret iarum huli asin doíri-sin; is and-sin bieid íc du Israhel.
      After the Ten Tribes were led into captivity to the Two Tribes, they shall return afterwards from that captivity; it is then that there will be salvation to Israel.

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: tathchuirid

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
do·aithchuiredar
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged do·n-aithchuiredar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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