domeil

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From to- +‎ meilid.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [doˈmʲelʲ]

Verb

do·meil (verbal noun tomalt)

  1. to consume, to use up
    • 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. 6c7
      Léic úait inna biada milsi et tomil innahí-siu do·mmeil do chenél arnáp hésom con·éit détso.
      Put away from you sg the sweet foods, and consume those that your race consumes, so that it may not be he who is indulgent to you.
    • 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. 18a10
      Ní tormult far mbíad ꝉ for n-étach.
      I have not used up your pl food or your clothing.
    • 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. 10c21
      Ba torad sa⟨í⟩thir dúun in chrud so ce du·melmis cech túari et ce du·gnemmis a ndu·gníat ar céli, act ní bad nertad na mbráithre et frescsiu fochricce as móo.
      It would be a fruit of labor for us in this way if we consumed every food and if we did what our fellows do, but it would not be a strengthening of the brothers and a hope of a greater reward.
  2. to use, to make use of

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, t preterite, é future, a subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. do·mmeil du·melam do·melat; da·melat (with infixed pronoun a-)
prot.
imperfect indicative deut.
prot.
preterite deut. do·miult
prot.
perfect deut.
prot. ·tormult
future deut.
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut.
prot. ·tormal (ro-form)
past subjunctive deut. do·melad; da·melad (with infixed pronoun a-); do·romlad (ro-form) du·melmis; dos·melmais (with infixed pronoun s-) do·meltis
prot.
imperative tomil toimled
verbal noun tomalt
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

  • Irish: tomhail

Mutation

Mutation of do·meil
radical lenition nasalization
do·meil
also do·mmeil		 do·meil
pronounced with /β̃ʲ-/		 do·meil
also do·mmeil

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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