doecmaing

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• do·ecmaic

Etymology

From to- +‎ in- +‎ com- +‎ ·icc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [doˈheɡβ̃ɨŋʲɡʲ]

Verb

do·ecmaing (prototonic ·tecmaing, verbal noun tecmang)

1. to happen
   • 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. 137^b5

     Fa·didmed aicned, acht dond·ecmaiṅg anísiu.

     Nature would have allowed it, except that this happens.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			do·ecmaing; dond·ecmaing (with infixed pronoun d-)			do·ecmungat
	Prot.			·tecming, ·tecmaing			·thecmongat (contracted relative deuterotonic)	·tecmongur
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.			·tecmainged
Preterite	Deut.			tond·echomnuchuir (with infixed pronoun d-)
	Prot.			·teccomnocuir
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.			do·ecmai; dot·eccme (with infixed pronoun t-)				dos·n-ecmaither (with infixed pronoun s-)
	Prot.			·tecma, ·tecmai
Past subjunctive	Deut.			do·ecmoised
	Prot.			·thecmaised (contracted relative deuterotonic)
Imperative
Verbal noun		tecmang
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Related terms

• ad·cumaing

Descendants

• Irish: teagmhaigh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
do·ecmaing (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	do·n-ecmaing
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), “doecmaing”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language