dogair

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ gairid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [doˈɡarʲ]

Verb

do·gair (verbal noun togairm)

1. to call
   • 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. 22^c1

     .i. dos·n-ucci intí doda·rogart.

     i.e. He who has called them understands them.

   • c. 808, Félire Oengusso, December 14; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:

     Don·rogra dond rígflaith ríg ro·ucc ar siur, sab cáid clóithe coïr Drusus cona thriur.

     May he call us to the royal realm of the king that our Sister has brought forth: the holy champion, vanquished, and just Drusus with his trio.

   • 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. 37^b16

     .i. ní hó mud neirt nó chaíne do·gairem-ni noíbu acht as·beram sanctos (“sainredchu nó rubriciu”) doib dint sainriud inna noíbe techtae.

     It is not in the manner of their strength or beauty that we call them holy, but we label them sanctos (“special or preeminent”) from the peculiarity of the holiness that they have.

Inflection

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

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.	dot·gaur (with infixed pronoun t-)		do·gair	do·gairem		du·gairet	do·gairther
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.			·tagart
Perfect	Deut.			do·rogart				do·rograd
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.			do·gara; do·rogra (ro-form)				to·rogarthar
	Prot.	·togar
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		togairm
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
do·gair	do·gair pronounced with /-ɣ(ʲ)-/	do·ngair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “do-gair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language