docaithi

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • di·caithi

Etymology

From to- +‎ caithid (“to consume”).

Verb

do·caithi

  1. to spend, consume
    • 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. 31d11
      .i. nachi[t]·tochthad fria choscc ní bes íre.
      Let him not wear thee out in admonishing him any longer.

Inflection

Complex, class A II present, s preterite, a subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. do·caithi; di·caithi
prot.
imperfect indicative deut.
prot.
preterite deut.
prot.
perfect deut. du·rochthaisset
prot.
future deut.
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut. du·caiter
prot.
past subjunctive deut.
prot.
imperative tochthad
verbal noun
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of do·caithi
radical lenition nasalization
do·caithi do·chaithi do·caithi
pronounced with /ɡ-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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