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Old Irish
Etymology
to- (“towards”) + imm- (“around”) + orcaid (“to strike”).
Pronunciation
Verb
do·immoirc (verbal noun timmorcon)
- to press
- to control, restrain, constrain
- 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. 77a12
Air du·roimnibetar mo popuil-se a rrecht dia n‑uilemarbae-siu a náimtea .i. mani bé nech fris·chomarr doïbsom ⁊ ⟨du⟩da·imchomarr dia chomalnad tri fochaidi ⁊ ingraimmen.- For my peoples will forget their law if you sg kill all their enemies, i.e. if there is no one who will hurt them and constrain them to fulfill it through tribulations and persecutions.
- 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. 90a9
follnaither (.i. Salamon) .i. bith flaithem intí Solam for saint ⁊ ní leicfither flaithemnacht du saint etir acht du·immarthar húand ríg .i. húa Solmain ɔnaba flaith.- That he (i.e. Solomon) rule, i.e. being king over cupidity, and sovereignty will not be permitted to cupidity at all, but it will be restrained by the king, i.e. by Solomon, so that it shall not be sovereign.
Conjugation
Complex, class B I present, t preterite, s future, s subjunctive
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