documlai

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ com- +‎ Proto-Celtic *luweti (“to come loose”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [doˈkuβ̃lɨ]

Verb

do·cumlai (verbal noun tochomlud)

to proceed, set out

Inflection

Complex, class A III present, s preterite
		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd	singular	plural
present indicative	deut.			do·cumlai			do·cumlat
present indicative	prot.

imperfect indicative	deut.
imperfect indicative	prot.

preterite	deut.						do·cumlaiset
preterite	prot.

perfect	deut.
perfect	prot.

future	deut.
future	prot.

conditional	deut.
conditional	prot.

present subjunctive	deut.
present subjunctive	prot.

past subjunctive	deut.
past subjunctive	prot.

imperative

verbal noun		tochomlud
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of *do·cumlai*
radical	lenition	nasalization
do·cumlai	do·chumlai	do·cumlai pronounced with /ɡ-/

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

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do-cumlai”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language