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Old Irish
Etymology
From dí- + ·tá, likely a calque of Latin distō.
The prefix dí- usually appears as do· in pretonic position, but not in the only attested deuterotonic form of this verb, di·taam.
Pronunciation
Verb
di·tá (prototonic ·dithá, verbal noun debuith)
- to differ, be different
- Synonym: dechraigidir
- 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. 117b9
di·taam-ni .i. dechrigmir-ni ón- We stand apart i.e. we differ thus
Inflection
Complex, class A III present
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debuith
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Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “do-tá”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 442