duesairc

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ ess- (“out”) +‎ orcaid (“to kill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [duˈhesɨrʲɡʲ]

Verb

du·esairc (prototonic ·tessairg)

1. to save, rescue

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, t preterite, s future, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.	dum·esurc (with infixed pronoun m-)		dun·esairc (with infixed pronoun n-)			do·esarcat
	Prot.	·tessurc		·tessairg
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.			dos·escmart (with infixed pronoun s-)
	Prot.			·tescmart
Future	Deut.			doda·essarr (with infixed pronoun da-)
	Prot.			·tesarr
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.						·tesartis
Present subjunctive	Deut.		da·essoir (with infixed pronoun a-)
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative						tesorcid
Verbal noun
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of duesairc

radical	lenition	nasalization
du·esairc (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	du·n-esairc

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-essuirg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language