dodímen

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ dí- +‎ Proto-Celtic *minuti (“to bind”).

Verb

do·dímen (verbal noun tuidme)

1. to bind, fasten

Conjugation

Complex, class B V present, reduplicated s preterite, a subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.
	prot.							·tuidbenar
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.			du·ruidmiset (normalized from du·ruidhmisiot)
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		tuidme
past participle		tuidmide
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of do·dímen

radical	lenition	nasalization
do·dímen	do·dímen pronounced with /ðʲ-/	do·ndímen

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

Further reading

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