duesairc

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ ess- (“out”) +‎ orcaid (“to kill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [duˈhesɨrʲɡʲ]

Verb

du·esairc (prototonic ·tessairg)

1. to save, rescue

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.	dum·esurc (with infixed pronoun m-)		dun·esairc (with infixed pronoun n-)			do·esarcat
	Prot.	·tessurc		·tessairg
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.			dos·escmart (with infixed pronoun s-)
	Prot.			·tescmart
Future	Deut.			doda·essarr (with infixed pronoun da-)
	Prot.			·tesarr
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.						·tesartis
Present subjunctive	Deut.		da·essoir (with infixed pronoun a-)
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative						tesorcid
Verbal noun
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

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