dofuthracair

Old Irish

Etymology

From dí- +‎ fo- +‎ tre- and Proto-Celtic *ānk-, a reduplicated perfective derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- (“to curve, bend”). See the English verb incline for comparable semantics.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doˈɸuθr͈əɡərʲ/, [doˈɸuθr͈aɡɨrʲ]

Verb

do·futhracair (prototonic ·dúthracair, verbal noun dúthracht)

1. to desire, wish for
   • 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. 14^b6

     Ní luc[h]t Corint nammá dia nduthraccar-sa a maith si[n]; acht da·duthraccar donaib huilib nóibaib file i n-Achaia.

     It is not only the Corinthians I wish good things to; I also wish that to all the saints who are in Achaea.

   • 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. 52

     ...cia dud·futharcair a bas.

     ...even as [Abimelech] desired for [David's] death.

Inflection

This verb is defective; it lacks a present stem. Instead, the preterite is used with present meaning.

Complex, suffixless preterite, s future, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.	da·duthraccar (with infixed pronoun a-)		do·dúthracair, dud·futharcair			do·futhractar, du·futharctar
	Prot.	·duthracar			·duthracmar
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Deut.						dun·futharset
	Prot.			·dudrastar
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.	do·duthris, do·futhris
	Prot.		·dúthrais
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.			·duthrised
Imperative
Verbal noun		dúthracht
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
do·futhracair	do·ḟuthracair	do·futhracair pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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