Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From dí- +‎ Proto-Celtic *wortīti, from Proto-Indo-European *wortéyeti, a causative formation from *wert- (to turn).[1]

Verb edit

do·fortai (prototonic ·dortai)

  1. to pour (out)
  2. to spill

Inflection edit

Descendants edit

  • Middle Irish: dóirtid

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
do·fortai do·ḟortai do·fortai
pronounced with /-v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ Le Mair, Esther (2011 September 30) Secondary Verbs in Old Irish: A comparative-historical study of patterns of verbal derivation in the Old Irish Glosses, Galway: National University of Ireland, page 200

Further reading edit