dofuthracair

Old Irish

Etymology

From dí- +‎ fo- +‎ tre- and Proto-Celtic *ānk-, a reduplicated perfective derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- (“to curve, bend”). See the English verb incline for comparable semantics.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /doˈɸuθr͈əɡərʲ/, [doˈɸuθr͈aɡɨrʲ]

Verb

do·futhracair (prototonic ·dúthracair, verbal noun dúthracht)

  1. to desire, wish for
    • 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. 14b6
      Ní luc[h]t Corint nammá dia nduthraccar-sa a maith si[n]; acht da·duthraccar donaib huilib nóibaib file i n-Achaia.
      It is not only the Corinthians I wish good things to; I also wish that to all the saints who are in Achaea.
    • 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. 52
      ...cia dud·futharcair a bas.
      ...even as [Abimelech] desired for [David's] death.

Inflection

This verb is defective; it lacks a present stem. Instead, the preterite is used with present meaning.

Complex, suffixless preterite, s future, s subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut.
prot.
imperfect indicative deut.
prot.
preterite deut. da·duthraccar (with infixed pronoun a-) do·dúthracair, dud·futharcair do·futhractar, du·futharctar
prot. ·duthracar ·duthracmar
perfect deut.
prot.
future deut. dun·futharset
prot. ·dudrastar
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut. do·duthris, do·futhris
prot. ·dúthrais
past subjunctive deut.
prot. ·duthrised
imperative
verbal noun dúthracht
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of do·futhracair
radical lenition nasalization
do·futhracair do·ḟuthracair do·futhracair
pronounced with /β̃-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, pages 140–41

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