doimmoirc

Old Irish

Etymology

to- (“towards”) +‎ imm- (“around”) +‎ orcaid (“to strike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [doˈhimorʲɡʲ]

Verb

do·immoirc (verbal noun timmorcon)

1. to press
2. to control, restrain, constrain
   • 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. 77^a12

     Air du·roimnibetar mo popuil-se a rrecht dia n‑uilemarbae-siu a náimtea .i. mani bé nech fris·chomarr doïbsom ⁊ ⟨du⟩da·imchomarr dia chomalnad tri fochaidi ⁊ ingraimmen.

     For my peoples will forget their law if you sg kill all their enemies, i.e. if there is no one who will hurt them and constrain them to fulfill it through tribulations and persecutions.

   • 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. 90^a9

     follnaither (.i. Salamon) .i. bith flaithem intí Solam for saint ⁊ ní leicfither flaithemnacht du saint etir acht du·immarthar húand ríg .i. húa Solmain ɔnaba flaith.

     That he (i.e. Solomon) rule, i.e. being king over cupidity, and sovereignty will not be permitted to cupidity at all, but it will be restrained by the king, i.e. by Solomon, so that it shall not be sovereign.

Conjugation

Complex, class B I present, t 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·immurc	do·immuirc
	Prot.							·timmorcar
Imperfect indicative	Deut.							du·immaircthe	do·immairctis
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.			dan·immart
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.			dob·imchomartt
	Prot.
Future	Deut.	do·immarr						du·immarthar
	Prot.								·timartar
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.			duda·imchomarr (com-form with infixed pronoun da-)
	Prot.			·timmar
Past subjunctive	Deut.							do·nimmarthae
	Prot.
Imperative				timmargad
Verbal noun		timmorcon
Past participle		timortae
Verbal of necessity

Further reading

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