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Old Irish
Etymology
From dí- + fo- + tre- and Proto-Celtic *ānk-, a reduplicated perfective derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- (“to curve, bend”). See the English verb incline for comparable semantics.
Pronunciation
Verb
do·futhracair (prototonic ·dúthracair, verbal noun dúthracht)
- to desire, wish for
- 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. 14b6
Ní luc[h]t Corint nammá dia nduthraccar-sa a maith si[n]; acht da·duthraccar donaib huilib nóibaib file i n-Achaia.- It is not only the Corinthians I wish good things to; I also wish that to all the saints who are in Achaea.
- 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. 52
...cia dud·futharcair a bas.- ...even as desired for death.
Inflection
This verb is defective; it lacks a present stem. Instead, the preterite is used with present meaning.
Complex, suffixless preterite, s future, s subjunctive
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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| do·futhracair
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do·ḟuthracair
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do·futhracair
pronounced with /-v(ʲ)-/
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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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References
- ^ Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, pages 140–41
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