doléici

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• do·léci

Etymology

From to- +‎ léicid. The e appearing in the prototonic forms is irregular. The deuterotonic forms in do·f- come from a reinterpretation of the prototonic forms. Pedersen assigns the forms in do·f- to a separate lemma do·failci from to- + ad- + léicid, but many of the forms he adduces are actually from do·áilgi (“to soothe, cherish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [doˈl͈ʲeːɡʲi]

Verb

do·léici (prototonic ·teilci or ·tailci, verbal noun teilciud)

1. to let, allow
2. to throw, fling, hurl
   • 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. 112^b12

     Is déniu ad·ciam húa ṡúlib risíu ro·cloammar in fogur húa chluasaib, ut est is toísigiu ad·ciam teilciud in béla resíu ro·cloammar a guth sidi.

     We see more quickly with the eyes before we hear the sound with the ears, ut est we see the throwing of the axe sooner before we hear the sound of this.

3. to lower, cast down
4. to shed (blood, tears etc.)

Descendants

• Middle Irish: teilcid (“to throw”)
  • Irish: teilg
  • Manx: tilg
  • Scottish Gaelic: tilg
• Middle Irish: tarlaicid (“to throw”) (< augmented forms like ·tarlaic (“has thrown”))

Mutation

Mutation of doléici

radical	lenition	nasalization
do·léici also do·lléici	do·léici pronounced with /-l(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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-léci”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, pages 564–65