doimthiret

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From to- +‎ imm- +‎ dí- +‎ reithid[1] or to- +‎ imm- +‎ aith- +‎ reithid.[2]

Verb

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do·imthiret (prototonic ·timthiret, verbal noun timthirecht)

  1. to serve, administer something else to another person
  2. to attend to
    • 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. 28d30
      i.e. ma dud·rimthirid óis carcre
      i.e. if she has attended prisoners [with food and clothing].
    • 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. 32b5
      oldate ind angil do·rimthirthetar ueterem legem
      than are the angels who have ministered [the old law?]

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
do·imthiret
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged do·n-imthiret
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Stüber, Karin (2015) “timthirecht”, in Die Verbalabstrakta des Altirischen (in German), volume 1, page 501
  2. ^ McCone, Kim (2006) The Origins and Development of the Insular Celtic Verbal Complex (Maynooth studies in Celtic linguistics), Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, →ISBN, page 178

Further reading

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