dufúairc

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• do·fúaircc

Etymology

From to- +‎ fo- +‎ orcaid (“strike down, kill, slay”).

Verb

du·fúairc (verbal noun túarcun)

1. to grind, crush

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.			du·fúairc; do·fúaircc			du·fúargat	do·fuarcar
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.							do·fuaircitis
	prot.
preterite	deut.			do·fúart
	prot.			·túart
perfect	deut.			do·comart			do·comartatar	du·comart
	prot.
future	deut.	du·fiurr	du·furr (Thurneysen reads du·fiir)
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.			du·fuarr; du·comarr (com-form)		du·fuarraid
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.			·tuarrad					·tuartis
imperative									tuargatar
verbal noun		túarcun
past participle		túartae
verbal of necessity		túarti

Mutation

Mutation of dufúairc

radical	lenition	nasalization
du·fúairc	du·ḟúairc	du·fúairc pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/

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