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doessim

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From to- +‎ ess- +‎ Proto-Celtic *semeti.

Verb

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do·essim (prototonic ·teisim, verbal noun teistiu)

  1. to pour out, shed
    • 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. 31b21
      .i. béssti olca doesmet fuili ar chródatu.
      [glossing Latin malae bestiae (evil beasts)] i.e. evil beasts that shed blood from cruelty.

Inflection

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Complex, class B I present, t preterite, a subjunctive
1st sg 2nd sg 3rd sg 1st pl 2nd pl 3rd pl passive sg passive pl
present indicative deut. do·essim do·esmet, do·eismet; tu·esmot du·esmar, du·esemar
prot. ·teisim ·teismetar
imperfect indicative deut.
prot.
preterite deut.
prot.
perfect deut. du·escmat do·resset; to·resset
prot.
future deut.
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut. to·esma do·esmider
prot.
past subjunctive deut. dumm·esmide (with infixed pronoun m-)
prot.
imperative tessim; teisim
verbal noun teistiu; testiu
past participle teiste
verbal of necessity

Mutation

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Mutation of doessim
radical lenition nasalization
do·essim
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged do·n-essim

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

Further reading

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