docaithi
Old Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From to- + caithid (“to consume”).
Verb
[edit]do·caithi
- to spend, consume
- 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. 31d11
- .i. nachi[t]·tochthad fria choscc ní bes íre.
- Let him not wear thee out in admonishing him any longer.
- 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. 31d11
Inflection
[edit]Complex, class A II present, s preterite, a subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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| Present indicative | Deut. | do·caithi; di·caithi | |||||||
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| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Perfect | Deut. | du·rochthaisset | |||||||
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| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Deut. | du·caiter | |||||||
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| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Imperative | tochthad | ||||||||
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| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| do·caithi | do·chaithi | do·caithi pronounced with /-ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do-caithi”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language