dofuthracair

Old Irish

Etymology

From dí- +‎ fo- +‎ tre- and Proto-Celtic *ānk-, a reduplicated perfective derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- (“to curve, bend”). See the English verb incline for comparable semantics.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̪oˈɸu.θɾə.ɡəɾʲ/
  • (Blasse) [d̪oˈɸu.θɾa.ɡɪɾʲ]
  • (Griffith) [d̪oˈɸu.θɾə.ɡɨɾʲ]

Verb

do·futhracair (prototonic ·dúthracair, verbal noun dúthracht)

1. to desire, wish for
   • 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. 14^b6

     Ní luc[h]t Corint nammá dia nduthraccar-sa a maith si[n]; acht da·duthraccar donaib huilib nóibaib file i n-Achaia.

     It is not only the Corinthians I wish good things to; I also wish that to all the saints who are in Achaea.

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 52

     ...cia dud·futharcair a bas.

     ...even as [Abimelech] desired for [David's] death.

Inflection

This verb is defective; it lacks a present stem. Instead, the preterite is used with present meaning.

Complex, suffixless preterite, s future, s subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.	da·duthraccar (with infixed pronoun a-)		do·dúthracair, dud·futharcair			do·futhractar, du·futharctar
	prot.	·duthracar			·duthracmar
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	deut.						dun·futharset
	prot.			·dudrastar
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.	do·duthris, do·futhris
	prot.		·dúthrais
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.			·duthrised
imperative
verbal noun		dúthracht
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of do·futhracair

radical	lenition	nasalization
do·futhracair	do·ḟuthracair	do·futhracair pronounced with /β̃-/

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