domuinethar

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• do·moinethar

Etymology

From to- +‎ ·muinethar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [doˈmunʲeθar]

Verb

do·muinethar (verbal noun toimtiu)

1. to think, suppose
   • 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. 14^a10:

     Is hed do·moiniur.

     That’s what I think.

   • 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. 17^d23

     arná{m}·tomnad námmin duine sed deus

     that he should not suppose that I am a human but a god

   • 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. 78^b24:

     du·menammar (“we may think”) (glosses opinari)

Conjugation

Complex, class B II present, reduplicated preterite, f future, a subjunctive, deponent

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.	do·muinur, do·moiniur, do·menaimm	do·mointer		do·muinemmar		do·munetar, do·muinetar; do·mainetar
	prot.							·tomnadar, ·tomnaitiur, ·tomainter	·tomnaiter
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.	do·mén, do·ménar
	prot.
perfect	deut.	du·ruménar	do·ruimin	do·ruménair, du·ruménar; do·rumén			du·ruménatar	do·rumat
	prot.				·torménmar	·torménid	·torménatar
future	deut.
	prot.							·tomnibther
conditional	deut.							do·mmuinfide
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.			du·mmenathar	du·menmar, du·menammar
	prot.			·tomnathar	·tomnammar		·tomnatar
past subjunctive	deut.			do·menad					·tomnitis, ·tomontis
	prot.			·tomnad				·tomainte
imperative
verbal noun		toimtiu
past participle		toimte
verbal of necessity

Descendants

• ⇒ Irish: toimhdigh

Mutation

Mutation of domuinethar

radical	lenition	nasalization
do·muinethar also do·mmuinethar	do·muinethar 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·moinethar”, 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 581–582