domeiccethar

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dī-mikneti (literally “dis-admire”); compare Welsh dirmygu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /doˈmʲekʲəθər/, [doˈmʲekʲeθar]

Verb

do·meiccethar (prototonic ·dimicedar, verbal noun dímiccem, dímicen)

  1. to despise
    • 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. 21d3
      Niba dimicthe-se libsi cía·béo i fochidib, ar [is] gloria dúibsi ón
      I should not be despised by you although I may be in sufferings: for this is glory to you

Conjugation

Complex, class A II present, s preterite, a subjunctive, deponent
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. de·mecimm do·mmeiccither du·mecetar di·meccither
prot.
imperfect indicative deut. du·mmecitis
prot.
preterite deut.
prot.
perfect deut.
prot. ·rodimicestar
future deut.
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut.
prot. ·dimicedar; ·rudimicedar (ro-form)
past subjunctive deut.
prot.
imperative dimicter
verbal noun dímiccem, dímicen
past participle dimicthe
verbal of necessity dimicthi

Mutation

Mutation of do·meiccethar
radical lenition nasalization
do·meiccethar
also do·mmeiccethar		 do·meiccethar
pronounced with /β̃ʲ-/		 do·meiccethar
also do·mmeiccethar

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

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