domaisi

Old Irish

Etymology

Contains the prefix to-. The verb's existence was discovered by Liam Breatnach in 2005; previously, occurrences of it were assigned to unrelated verbs, like do·maithi (“to threaten”) and dlomaid (“to reject”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doˈma.sʲi/

Verb

do·maisi (prototonic ·toimsi)

1. to devise, concoct

Inflection

Complex, class A II present, s preterite

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.			do·maisi				do·maister
	prot.			·toimsi
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.			do·mais
	prot.
perfect	deut.
	prot.			·tormis
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of domaisi

radical	lenition	nasalization
do·maisi also do·mmaisi	do·maisi pronounced with /-β̃(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-maisi”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language