docoisgedar

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ com- +‎ seichithir.

Verb

do·coisgedar (prototonic ·tochosgedar, verbal noun tochoisgem)

1. to follow
   • 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. 10^a27

     ar mad forṅgaire do·gnein, do·coischifed pían a thairmthecht.

     For if it were a command that I gave, punishment would follow the transgression thereof.

   • 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. 62^c6b

     .i. a llaithe nundam·soira, dlegair damsa a buidigud do-som int soirthar-sin is ind aidchi dud·choisgedar.

     The day that He delivers me, I am obliged to thank Him for that deliverance on 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. 15^b4

     a ndo·coisgedar ne comaccomuil .s.

     when the conjunction ne comes after s

Inflection

Complex, class A II present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive, deponent

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.			do·coisgedar; dud·choisgedar (with infixed pronoun d-); do·coiscethar			dud·choisgetar (with infixed pronoun d-)
	prot.			·tochosgedar		·tochosgid
imperfect indicative	deut.						da·choisgitis
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.		·tochaisgesser
perfect	deut.			duru·choisgestar
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.			do·choischifed
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.			du·coscedar
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.			da·choisged (with infixed pronoun a-)
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		tochoisgem
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: do·coisci

Mutation

Mutation of docoisgedar

radical	lenition	nasalization
do·coisgedar	do·choisgedar	do·coisgedar 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

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