doimthiret

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ imm- +‎ dí- +‎ reithid^[1] or to- +‎ imm- +‎ aith- +‎ reithid.^[2]

Verb

do·imthiret (prototonic ·timthiret, verbal noun timthirecht)

to serve, administer something else to another person
to attend to
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 28^d30
  i.e. ma dud·rimthirid óis carcre
  i.e. if she has attended prisoners [with food and clothing].
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 32^b5
  oldate ind angil do·rimthirthetar ueterem legem
  than are the angels who have ministered [the old law?]

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, suffixless preterite
		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd	singular	plural
present indicative	deut.	to·imdirut
present indicative	prot.	·timdiriut					·timthirdet

imperfect indicative	deut.
imperfect indicative	prot.

preterite	deut.
preterite	prot.

perfect	deut.			do·rimthirid			do·rimthirthetar
perfect	prot.

future	deut.
future	prot.

conditional	deut.
conditional	prot.

present subjunctive	deut.
present subjunctive	prot.

past subjunctive	deut.
past subjunctive	prot.

imperative

verbal noun		timthirecht
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

timthirid

Mutation

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

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

^ Stüber, Karin (2015) “timthirecht”, in Die Verbalabstrakta des Altirischen (in German), volume 1, page 501
^ McCone, Kim (2006) The Origins and Development of the Insular Celtic Verbal Complex (Maynooth studies in Celtic linguistics), Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, →ISBN, page 178

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do-immthiret”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language