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Old Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From to- + feidid (“to lead”).
Verb
do·feid (verbal noun tuíden)
- to go before, to take precedence
Inflection
Complex, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive
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do·fed, do·fet
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tóided
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tuíden
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Etymology 2
From dí- (“of, from”) + feidid (“to lead”).
Verb
do·feid (verbal noun díden)
- to lead, to bring
- to bring about, to cause
Inflection
Complex, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive
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do·fed, do·fet
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do·fedhat
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ta·feid, ton·feid (with infexed pronoun a-, n-)
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dus·feded (with infixed pronoun s-)
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dod·feitis (with infixed pronoun d-)
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du·fáid
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dut·fidedar (with infixed pronoun t-)
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duda·ruid (with infixed pronoun da-)
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do·fessind
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don·fé (with infixed pronoun n-)
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díden
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References
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dofet”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) “Urkelt. *u̯ed-e/o- ‘(zusammen)führen, fließen’”, in Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, page 656f.
- Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) “fed- ‘lead, bring’”, in Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, 3.1.41., page 198