doaitni
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]According to Stüber, from to- + ad- + *tind (“bright”, an adjective only attested in later Irish).[1]
Verb
[edit]do·aitni (verbal noun taitnem)
- to shine
- c. 700 Immram Brain, published in The Voyage of Bran son of Febal to the land of the living (1895, London: David Nutt), pp. 1-35, edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer and Alfred Nutt, stanza 3
- Fil inis i n-etarchéin imma·taitnet gabra réin, rith find fris tóibgel tondat, cetheóir cossa fos·longat.
- There is a distant island around which the horses of the sea [i.e. waves] glisten; a fair course against the white-swelling surge, four feet upholding it.
- c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-I 3125
- It é súile na caurad assa cennaib-sin do·raitniset frit amail óible[a] tened.
- [Fergus describing what Mac Roth saw] They were the eyes of the warriors that were flashing from their heads to you like sparks of fire.
- c. 700 Immram Brain, published in The Voyage of Bran son of Febal to the land of the living (1895, London: David Nutt), pp. 1-35, edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer and Alfred Nutt, stanza 3
- to please
Usage notes
[edit]- In the Milan glosses, this verb is replaced by a simple deponent verb taitnigidir.
Inflection
[edit]Complex, class A II present, s preterite
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Deut. | do·aitni | |||||||
| Prot. | ·taitnet | ||||||||
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Preterite | Deut. | do·aitne (normalized do·aitni) | |||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | do·raitne (normalized do·raitni) | do·raitniset | ||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | taitnem | ||||||||
| Past participle | |||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| do·aitni (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | do·n-aitni |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Stüber, Karin (2015) Die Verbalabstrakta des Altirischen (in German), page 120
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do-aitni”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language