dogoa

Old Irish

Etymology

to- +‎ Proto-Celtic *guseti, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwseti, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews-.

The future and preterite passive forms are analogical after do·gní (“to do”). The preterite 3sg. do·roígu also shows analogy with that verb; a preform *do·gú compared to do·gní (preterite 3sg. do·génai) would have an expected *do·roíge reformed to do·roígu to match. The present stem, including do·goa itself, was secondarily back-formed from the subjunctive stem as it was converted from an s-subjunctive to an a-subjunctive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [doˈɡo.a]

Verb

do·goa (verbal noun togu)

1. to choose

Conjugation

Complex, class A III present, reduplicated preterite, a future, a subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.	do·goïm	do·goï	do·goa, do·gó			do·goat
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.	do·roíga	do·roíga	do·roígu		do·roígaid	do·roígatar	do·rogad, do·roígad
	prot.
future	deut.			do·gega, do·gegai			do·gegat
	prot.
conditional	deut.	do·gegainn		do·gegad
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.			do·goa
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.			do·goad
	prot.
imperative			tog, toga			togaid
verbal noun		togu
past participle		tuicse; togaide
verbal of necessity

Quotations

• 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. 20^a4

  masu ed do·roígaid

  if it is this that you pl have chosen

• 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. 124^c13

  do·rogad [translating delectum]

  has been chosen

Related terms

• asa·gúsi

Descendants

• Middle Irish: togaid
  • Irish: togh
  • Manx: teih
  • Scottish Gaelic: tagh

Mutation

Mutation of dogoa

radical	lenition	nasalization
do·goa	do·goa pronounced with /-ɣ(ʲ)-/	do·ngoa

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), “1 do·goa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language