doinscanna
Old Irish
Etymology
Unknown. The prefixes do- + ind- are visible, however.
Verb
do·inscanna (verbal noun ·tinscana)
- to begin
Inflection
Complex, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Deut. | do·inscannsom (with nota augens -som) | |||||||
| Prot. | ·tinscana | ·tinscanat | ·tinscantar | ||||||
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Preterite | Deut. | do·n-indscan | |||||||
| Prot. | ·tinscansat | ||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | ·tindarscan | ||||||||
| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | ·tinscanfam | ||||||||
| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Deut. | do·inscanna | |||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Imperative | tinscan | ||||||||
| Verbal noun | |||||||||
| Past participle | |||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Derived terms
- in·tinnscana
Descendants
- Middle Irish: tinnscnaid
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| do·inscanna | unchanged | do·n-inscanna |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “do-inscanna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language