Old Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From to- +‎ caithid (to consume).

Verb edit

do·caithi

  1. to spend, consume
    • 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. 31d11
      .i. nachi[t]·tochthad fria choscc ní bes íre.
      Let him not wear thee out in admonishing him any longer.

Inflection edit

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
do·caithi do·chaithi do·caithi
pronounced with /-ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit