doessim

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ ess- +‎ Proto-Celtic *semeti.

Verb

do·essim (prototonic ·teisim, verbal noun teistiu)

1. to pour out, shed
   • 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^b21

     .i. béssti olca doesmet fuili ar chródatu.

     [glossing Latin malae bestiae (“evil beasts”)] i.e. evil beasts that shed blood from cruelty.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, t preterite, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			do·essim			do·esmet, do·eismet; tu·esmot	du·esmar, du·esemar
	Prot.			·teisim					·teismetar
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.			du·escmat				do·resset; to·resset
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.			to·esma				do·esmider
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.							dumm·esmide (with infixed pronoun m-)
	Prot.
Imperative			tessim; teisim
Verbal noun		teistiu; testiu
Past participle		teiste
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
do·essim	unchanged	do·n-essim
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “do-essim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language