duesairc
Old Irish
Etymology
From to- + ess- (“out”) + orcaid (“to kill”).
Verb
du·esairc (prototonic ·tessairg)
- to save, rescue
Inflection
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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Deut. | dum·esurc (with infixed pronoun m-) | dun·esairc (with infixed pronoun n-) | do·esarcat | |||||
| Prot. | ·tessurc | ·tessairg | |||||||
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | dos·escmart (with infixed pronoun s-) | |||||||
| Prot. | ·tescmart | ||||||||
| Future | Deut. | doda·essarr (with infixed pronoun da-) | |||||||
| Prot. | ·tesarr | ||||||||
| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | ·tesartis | ||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Deut. | da·essoir (with infixed pronoun a-) | |||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Imperative | tesorcid | ||||||||
| Verbal noun | |||||||||
| Past participle | |||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| du·esairc | unchanged | du·n-esairc |
| 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-essuirg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language