docaithi

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• di·caithi

Etymology

From to- +‎ caithid (“to consume”).

Verb

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. 31^d11

     .i. nachi[t]·tochthad fria choscc ní bes íre.

     Let him not wear thee out in admonishing him any longer.

Inflection

Complex, class A II present, s preterite, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			do·caithi; di·caithi
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.						du·rochthaisset
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.							du·caiter
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative				tochthad
Verbal noun
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do-caithi”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language