doimthiret

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ imm- +‎ dí- +‎ reithid or to- +‎ imm- +‎ aith- +‎ reithid.

Verb

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

1. to serve, administer something else to another person
2. 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
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.	to·imdirut
	prot.	·timdiriut					·timthirdet
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.			do·rimthirid			do·rimthirthetar
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	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.

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