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Old Irish
Etymology
From to- + uss- + Proto-Celtic *semeti (“pour”), from *semH- (“pump, draw water, scoop”). Cognate with Middle Welsh gwehynnu (“pour”) (from *uɸo-semo-), Old Breton douohinnom (glossing haustum; from *to-uɸo-semo-), Lithuanian sémti (“to pump, scoop”), Latin sentīna (“bilgewater”).
Pronunciation
Verb
do·fuissim (verbal noun tuistiu)
- to create
- to beget (of a father)
- to bear (a child; of a mother)
Conjugation
Complex, class B I present, t preterite, é future, a subjunctive
Quotations
- 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. 94b7
Amal as messe duda·forsat inna dúli, is mé dano bǽras mes fírían foraib. (with resumptive pronoun da- (“them”))- As it is I who have created the elements, so too it is I who will pass righteous judgment on them.
- 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. 120c7
cid torbae ara·torsata ⁊ cía gním du·gníat inna dúli- what use the elements have been created for and what work they do
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Mutation
Mutation of dofuissim
radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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do·fuissim
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do·ḟuissim
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do·fuissim pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.