détso

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʲetso/

  Although the attested spelling has an acute accent over the e, it is likely that the vowel was actually short, since all variant forms as well as all modern forms have a short vowel.

Pronoun

détso

1. second-person singular emphatic of do
   • 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. 6^c7

     Léic úait inna bíada milsi et tomil innahí-siu do·mmeil do chenél arnáp hésom con·éit détso.

     Put away from you sg the sweet foods, and consume those that your race consumes, so that it may not be he who is indulgent to you.