dufúairc

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• do·fúaircc

Etymology

From to- +‎ fo- +‎ orcaid (“strike down, kill, slay”).

Verb

du·fúairc (verbal noun túarcun)

1. to grind, crush

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.			du·fúairc; do·fúaircc			du·fúargat	do·fuarcar
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.							do·fuaircitis
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.			do·fúart
	Prot.			·túart
Perfect	Deut.			do·comart			do·comartatar	du·comart
	Prot.
Future	Deut.	du·fiurr	du·furr (Thurneysen reads du·fiir)
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.			du·fuarr; du·comarr (com-form)		du·fuarraid
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.			·tuarrad					·tuartis
Imperative									tuargatar
Verbal noun		túarcun
Past participle		túartae
Verbal of necessity		túarti

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
du·fúairc	du·ḟúairc	du·fúairc pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/
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-fúairc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language