doirt

See also: dóirt and dòirt

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d̪ˠɔɾˠtʲ/[1]

Etymology 1

From Old Irish do·fortai (to pour).[2]

Verb

doirt (present analytic doirteann, future analytic doirtfidh, verbal noun doirteadh, past participle doirte)

  1. to pour
  2. to spill
  3. to shed, (of colours) run
  4. (figurative) to pour out, exhaust
  5. (literary) to submerge, extinguish
Conjugation
Alternative forms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

doirt (present analytic doirteann, future analytic doirtfidh, verbal noun doirtim, past participle doirte)

  1. (ambitransitive) Connacht form of druid (to move, draw near)
Conjugation

Mutation

Mutated forms of doirt
radical lenition eclipsis
doirt dhoirt ndoirt

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

References

  1. ^ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1977) Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht [The Irish of Cois Fharraige: Accidence] (in Irish), 2nd edition, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath [Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies], section 404, page 216
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do·fortai”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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