dointaí

Old Irish

From to- +‎ ind- +‎ soid (“to turn”).

do·intaí (verbal noun tintúd)

to return, turn back
- 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. 54^d3
  .i. nad ndechuid a ernaig[de] huadsom dochum nDæ, acht du·intarrae inna ucht fesin iterum.
  i.e. that his prayer had not gone from him to God, but had turned back again to his own bosom.
to translate
- 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. 37^a10
  h[ú]are as necen ɔdib oín-son tintá in son n-Ebraide cosnaib il-chiallaib techtas
  because it is necessary that it be one word which should translate the Hebrew word with the many meanings that it has

Complex, class A III present, s preterite, a subjunctive

Middle Irish: tintaigid, tintáid, tintóid
- Irish: tiontaigh
- Manx: çhyndaa
- Scottish Gaelic: tionndaidh

Mutation of *dointaí*
radical	lenition	nasalization
do·intaí (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	do·n-intaí

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.