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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Complex, class A II present, s preterite, s future, a subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. du·adchuridar; do·naithchuiredar (nasalized relative)
prot.
imperfect indicative deut. do·adchuired
prot.
preterite deut.
prot.
perfect deut.
prot. ·tatharlais
future deut. do·naithfoicherr (nasalized relative); do·aithcuirfe (regularized) du·nathfoichret (nasalized relative)
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut.
prot. ·tadchuiriur
past subjunctive deut.
prot.
imperative
verbal noun tadchor, taidchor, tathchor
past participle taidchoirthe
verbal of necessity

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: tathchuirid

Mutation

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Mutation of doaithchuiredar
radical lenition nasalization
do·aithchuiredar
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged do·n-aithchuiredar

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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