doimthiret
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From to- + imm- + dí- + reithid[1] or to- + imm- + aith- + reithid.[2]
Verb edit
do·imthiret (prototonic ·timthiret, verbal noun timthirecht)
- to serve, administer something else to another person
- 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. 28d30
- 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. 32b5
- oldate ind angil do·rimthirthetar ueterem legem
- than are the angels who have ministered [the old law?]
- 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. 28d30
Inflection edit
Complex, class B I present, suffixless preterite
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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| Present indicative | Deut. | to·imdirut | |||||||
| Prot. | ·timdiriut | ·timthirdet | |||||||
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Perfect | Deut. | do·rimthirid | do·rimthirthetar | ||||||
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| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | timthirecht | ||||||||
| Past participle | |||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Derived terms edit
Mutation edit
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| do·imthiret | unchanged | do·n-imthiret |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References edit
- ^ Stüber, Karin (2015) “timthirecht”, in Die Verbalabstrakta des Altirischen (in German), volume 1, page 501
- ^ McCone, Kim (2006) The Origins and Development of the Insular Celtic Verbal Complex (Maynooth studies in Celtic linguistics), Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, →ISBN, page 178
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “do-immthiret”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language