Old Irish

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Etymology

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

Verb

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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. 31b21
      .i. béssti olca doesmet fuili ar chródatu.
      [glossing Latin malae bestiae (evil beasts)] i.e. evil beasts that shed blood from cruelty.

Inflection

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Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
do·essim
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged do·n-essim
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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