doimmdiben

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ immdíben (“to excise”), composed of to- (“to”) +‎ imm- (“circum-”) +‎ dí- (“de-”) +‎ benaid (“to strike”).

Verb

do·immdíben

1. to cut away, shorten
   • 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. 88^a11

     ł. macerarer .i. lasse nom·seimigthese .i. du·n-indbithe mu chland beus

     or macerarer, i.e. when I used to be attenuated, i.e. when my clan used to be diminished further.

Inflection

Complex, class B IV present

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.	do·imdibnim
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.							do·n-indbdithe
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: timdibid

Mutation

Mutation of doimmdiben

radical	lenition	nasalization
do·immdíben (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	do·n-immdíben

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do-immdíben”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language