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Old Irish
Etymology
From dí- + Proto-Celtic *emeti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- (“to take, distribute”).
Pronunciation
Verb
do·eim (prototonic ·dim, verbal noun dítiu)
- to cover, to shelter, protect
- 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. 39c22
Amal do·n-emat éoin a suthu, arin·deroima-som Día samlid.- Like a bird protects its offspring, may God protect him in the same manner.
- 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. 67c5
Du·fí .i. du·éma són.- he will avenge, i.e. he will protect
- 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. 31a1
.i. im chétni precept .i. do·rret-sa soscele.- i.e. in my first teaching, I defended the Gospel.
- to hide
Inflection
Complex, class B I present, t preterite, é and f future, a subjunctive
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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| do·eim
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unchanged
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do·n-eim
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “doeim”, 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 512