domaisi

Old Irish

Etymology

Contains the prefix to-. The verb's existence was discovered by Liam Breatnach in 2005; previously, occurrences of it were assigned to unrelated verbs, like do·maithi (“to threaten”) and dlomaid (“to reject”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /doˈma.sʲi/

Verb

do·maisi (prototonic ·toimsi)

to devise, concoct

Inflection

Complex, class A II present, s preterite
		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd	singular	plural
present indicative	deut.			do·maisi				do·maister
present indicative	prot.			·toimsi

imperfect indicative	deut.
imperfect indicative	prot.

preterite	deut.			do·mais
preterite	prot.

perfect	deut.
perfect	prot.			·tormis

future	deut.
future	prot.

conditional	deut.
conditional	prot.

present subjunctive	deut.
present subjunctive	prot.

past subjunctive	deut.
past subjunctive	prot.

imperative

verbal noun
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of *do·maisi*
radical	lenition	nasalization
do·maisi also do·mmaisi	do·maisi pronounced with /β̃-/	do·maisi also do·mmaisi

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

References

^ Breatnach, Liam (2007) “Varia”, in Ériu‎^[1], volume 57, Royal Irish Academy, →ISSN, →JSTOR, retrieved 18 August 2022, pages 155–163