dofet

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doˈɸʲeðʲ/, [doˈɸʲeðʲ]

Etymology 1

From to- +‎ feidid (“to lead”).

Verb

do·feid (verbal noun tuíden)

1. to go before, to take precedence

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.			do·fed, do·fet
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative				tóided
verbal noun		tuíden
past participle
verbal of necessity

Etymology 2

From dí- (“of, from”) +‎ feidid (“to lead”).

Verb

do·feid (verbal noun díden)

1. to lead, to bring
2. to bring about, to cause

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.			do·fed, do·fet			do·fedhat
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.		ta·feid, ton·feid (with infexed pronoun a-, n-)	dus·feded (with infixed pronoun s-)			dod·feitis (with infixed pronoun d-)
	prot.
preterite	deut.			du·fáid			dut·fidedar (with infixed pronoun t-)
	prot.
perfect	deut.			duda·ruid (with infixed pronoun da-)
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.	do·fessind
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.			don·fé (with infixed pronoun n-)
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		díden
past participle
verbal of necessity

References

• Rolf Baumgarten (1983) “Varia III A note on the Táin Bó Regamna”, in Ériu, volume 34, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, page 190

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dofet”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) “Urkelt. *u̯ed-e/o- ‘(zusammen)führen, fließen’”, in Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, page 656f.
• Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) “fed- ‘lead, bring’”, in Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, 3.1.41., page 198