doíarmórat

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ íarm- +‎ fo- +‎ uss- +‎ reithid.

Verb

do·íarmórat (verbal noun tíarmóracht)

1. to follow
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 21^c3

     ...co ndermanammar-ni inna imned-sin i mbiam isind laithiu tri chumsanad inna aidche dod·íarmórat...

     ...so that we may forget those troubles in which we are in the day through the repose of the night that follows it...

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 136^a1

     .i. um do glanad i nderiud ferso dég is úa guthaigthi in fers in·tinnscana dod·íarmórat.

     i.e. -um is to be elided at the end of a verse, because the verse which follows it begins with a vowel.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, s future

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.			dod·íarmórat (with infixed pronoun d-)
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.						·tíarmórset
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		tíarmóracht
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of doíarmórat

radical	lenition	nasalization
do·íarmórat (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	do·n-íarmórat

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do-íarmórat”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language