doimthiret

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ imm- +‎ dí- +‎ reithid or to- +‎ imm- +‎ aith- +‎ reithid.

Verb

do·imthiret (prototonic ·timthiret, verbal noun timthirecht)

1. to serve, administer something else to another person
2. to attend to
   • 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. 28^d30

     i.e. ma dud·rimthirid óis carcre

     i.e. if she has attended prisoners [with food and clothing].

   • 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. 32^b5

     oldate ind angil do·rimthirthetar ueterem legem

     than are the angels who have ministered [the old law?]

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, suffixless preterite

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.	to·imdirut
	Prot.	·timdiriut					·timthirdet
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.			do·rimthirid			do·rimthirthetar
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		timthirecht
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• timthirid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
do·imthiret (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	do·n-imthiret
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), “do-immthiret”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language