dotét

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Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish do·tét. By surface analysis, to- +‎ téit.

Pronunciation

Verb

do·tét (verbal noun tuidecht, prototonic ·táet)

  1. (intransitive) to come (move from further away to nearer to)
    Synonym: do·icc
    • c. 1000, anonymous author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 1, line 3:
      Do·eth ó Ailill ocus ó Meidbh do chungid in chon.
      People came from Ailill and from Medb to ask for the hound. (literally, One came…)

Conjugation

  • Passive singular preterite deuterotonic: do·eth

Descendants

  • Irish: téid, théid

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
do·tét do·thét do·tét
pronounced with /-d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ téit.

Pronunciation

Verb

do·tét (prototonic ·táet, verbal noun tuidecht)

  1. (intransitive) to come (move from further away to nearer to)
    Synonym: do·icc
    • 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. 53c11
      in tan as·mbeir, “Taít, á maccu”
      when he says, “Come, children”
  2. to occur
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 159a3
      Is airi ní táet comsuidigud fri rangabáil, húare as coibnesta do bréthir: ar is lour comsuidigud fri suidi, air bid comsuidigud etarscartha comsuidigud rangabálae.
      This is why composition does not occur with a participle, because it is akin to a verb: for composition with the latter is sufficient, for composition of a participle will be separated composition.

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Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
do·tét do·thét do·tét
pronounced with /-d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading