doformaig

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ for- + the reflex of Proto-Celtic *maketi (“to raise”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“long, to raise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [doˈformɨɣʲ]

Verb

do·formaig (verbal noun tórmach)

1. to increase
2. to add
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 35^a17

     Air cía dunaibhí do·foirmsed?

     For to whom would he add?

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, t preterite, s future, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			do·formaig			do·fórmgat	do·formagar	do·ḟormmagddar
	Prot.							·tórmagar
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.			do·rormacht			do·rormachtatar	du·rormacht
	Prot.
Future	Deut.			du·forma				du·fórmastar
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.			do·foirmsed
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.			do·rórma (ro-form)
	Prot.		·tórmais			·thormassíd (lenited)		·tormastar
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.			·tormaisead
Imperative			tórmaig
Verbal noun		tórmach
Past participle		tórmachte
Verbal of necessity		tormachtai

Descendants

• → Old Welsh: diguormechis (3sg preterite) (calqued)
• → Old Breton: degurmeh (3sg present) (calqued)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
do·formaig	do·ḟormaig	do·formaig pronounced with /-β(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), “doformaig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language