doecmaing

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From to- +‎ in- +‎ com- +‎ ·icc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [doˈheɡβ̃ɨŋʲɡʲ]

Verb

do·ecmaing (prototonic ·tecmaing, verbal noun tecmang)

  1. to happen
    • 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. 137b5
      Fa·didmed aicned, acht dond·ecmaiṅg anísiu.
      Nature would have allowed it, except that this happens.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, s subjunctive
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present indicative deut. do·ecmaing; dond·ecmaing (with infixed pronoun d-) do·ecmungat
prot. ·tecming, ·tecmaing ·thecmongat (contracted relative deuterotonic) ·tecmongur
imperfect indicative deut.
prot. ·tecmainged
preterite deut. tond·echomnuchuir (with infixed pronoun d-)
prot. ·teccomnocuir
perfect deut.
prot.
future deut.
prot.
conditional deut.
prot.
present subjunctive deut. do·ecmai; dot·eccme (with infixed pronoun t-) dos·n-ecmaither (with infixed pronoun s-)
prot. ·tecma, ·tecmai
past subjunctive deut. do·ecmoised
prot. ·thecmaised (contracted relative deuterotonic)
imperative
verbal noun tecmang
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

  • Irish: teagmhaigh

Mutation

Mutation of do·ecmaing
radical lenition nasalization
do·ecmaing
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
do·ecmaing do·n-ecmaing

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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