doinscanna

Old Irish

Etymology

Unknown. The prefixes to- +‎ ind- are visible, however.

Verb

do·inscanna (prototonic ·tinscana)

1. to begin

Inflection

Complex, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.			do·inscannsom (with emphatic suffix -som)
	prot.			·tinscana			·tinscanat	·tinscantar
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.			do·n-indscan
	prot.						·tinscansat
perfect	deut.
	prot.			·tindarscan
future	deut.
	prot.				·tinscanfam
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.			do·inscanna
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative			tinscan
verbal noun
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• in·tinnscana

Descendants

• Middle Irish: tinnscnaid
  • Irish: tionscain

Mutation

Mutation of doinscanna

radical	lenition	nasalization
do·inscanna (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	do·n-inscanna

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), “do-inscanna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language