doessim

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ ess- +‎ Proto-Celtic *semeti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̪oˈhe.sʲəβ̃ʲ/
  • (Blasse) [d̪oˈhe.sʲɪβ̃ʲ]
  • (Griffith) [d̪oˈhe.sʲɨβ̃ʲ]

Verb

do·essim (prototonic ·teisim, verbal noun teistiu)

1. to pour out, shed
   • 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. 31^b21

     .i. béssti olca doesmet fuili ar chródatu.

     [glossing Latin malae bestiae (“evil beasts”)] i.e. evil beasts that shed blood from cruelty.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, t preterite, a subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.			do·essim			do·esmet, do·eismet; tu·esmot	du·esmar, du·esemar
	prot.			·teisim					·teismetar
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.			du·escmat				do·resset; to·resset
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.			to·esma				do·esmider
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.							dumm·esmide (with infixed pronoun m-)
	prot.
imperative			tessim; teisim
verbal noun		teistiu; testiu
past participle		teiste
verbal of necessity

Related terms

• do·fuissim

Mutation

Mutation of do·essim

radical	lenition	nasalization
do·essim (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	do·essim	do·n-essim

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-essim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language