doimmoirc
Old Irish
Etymology
Synchronically analyzable as to- (“towards”) + imm- (“around”) + orgaid (“to strike”).
Verb
do·immoirc (verbal noun timmorcon)
- to press
- to control, restrain, constrain
- Diarmait, c. 800–825, 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. 90a9
- follnaither (.i. Salamon) .i. bith flaithem intí Solam for saint ⁊ ní leicfither flaithemnacht du saint etir acht du·immarthar húand ríg .i. húa Solmain ɔnaba flaith.
- That he (i.e. Solomon) rule, i.e. being king over cupidity, and sovereignty will not be permitted to cupidity at all, but it will be restrained by the king, i.e. by Solomon, so that it shall not be sovereign.
- Diarmait, c. 800–825, 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. 90a9
Conjugation
Complex, class B I present, t preterite, s future, s subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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| Present indicative | Deut. | do·immurc | do·immuirc | ||||||
| Prot. | ·timmorcar | ||||||||
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | du·immaircthe | do·immairctis | ||||||
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| Preterite | Deut. | dan·immart | |||||||
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| Perfect | Deut. | dob·imchomartt | |||||||
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| Future | Deut. | do·immarr | du·immarthar | ||||||
| Prot. | ·timartar | ||||||||
| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Deut. | da·imchomarr (com-form) | |||||||
| Prot. | ·timmar | ||||||||
| Past subjunctive | Deut. | do·nimmarthae | |||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Imperative | timmargad | ||||||||
| Verbal noun | timmorcon | ||||||||
| Past participle | timortae | ||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “do-immoirg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language