doscéulai
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Denominative verb from to- + scél (“story, news”).
Verb
[edit]do·scéulai (prototonic ·toscelai, verbal noun taiscélad)
- to find out, ascertain
- Synonym: ro·finnadar
- to make known
Inflection
[edit]Complex, class A II present, f future, a subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Deut. | do·scéulaim | do·sceulai | ||||||
| Prot. | ·toscelai | ||||||||
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Future | Deut. | du·sceulub | |||||||
| Prot. | ·toscelfat | ||||||||
| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Deut. | du·sceula | du·ssceulat | ||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | taiscélad | ||||||||
| Past participle | tosceltae | ||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Descendants
[edit]- Middle Irish: taiscélaid
Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| do·scéulai | do·scéulai | unchanged |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do-scé(u)lai”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language