ditá
See also: dita, Dita, DITA, and dîta
Old Irish
Etymology
From dí- + ·tá, likely a calque of Latin distō.
The prefix dí- usually appears as do· in pretonic position, but not in the only attested deuterotonic form of this verb, di·taam.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dʲiˈtɑː/
Verb
di·tá (prototonic ·dithá, verbal noun debuith)
- to differ, be different
- c. 875, 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. 117b9
- di·taam-ni .i. dechrigmir-ni ón
- We stand apart i.e. we differ thus
- Synonym: dechraigidir
- c. 875, 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. 117b9
Inflection
Complex
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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| Present indicative | Deut. | di·taam | |||||||
| Prot. | ·dithát | ||||||||
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Perfect | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Verbal noun | debuith | ||||||||
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Further reading
- C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “do-tá”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
- Holger Pedersen (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 442