domeil

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• do·mmeil, to·mel

Etymology

From to- +‎ meilid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [doˈmʲelʲ]

Verb

do·meil (verbal noun tomalt)

1. to consume, to use up
   • 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. 6^c7

     Léic úait inna biada milsi et tomil innahí-siu do·mmeil do chenél arnáp hésom con·éit détso.

     Put away from you sg the sweet foods, and consume those that your race consumes, so that it may not be he who is indulgent to you.

   • 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. 10^c21

     Ba torad sa⟨í⟩thir dúun in chrud so ce du·melmis cech túari et ce du·gnemmis a ndu·gníat ar céli, act ní bad nertad na mbráithre et frescsiu fochricce as móo.

     It would be a fruit of labor for us in this way if we consumed every food and if we did what our fellows do, but it would not be a strengthening of the brothers and a hope of a greater reward.

2. to use, to make use of

Inflection

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

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			do·mmeil	du·melam		do·melat; da·melat (with infixed pronoun a-)
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.	do·miult
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.			·tormult
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.			·tormal (ro-form)
Past subjunctive	Deut.			do·melad; da·melad (with infixed pronoun a-); do·romlad (ro-form)	du·melmis; dos·melmais (with infixed pronoun s-)		do·meltis
	Prot.
Imperative			tomil	toimled
Verbal noun		tomalt
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Irish: tomhail

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
do·meil also do·mmeil	do·meil pronounced with /-ṽ(ʲ)-/	unchanged
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·meil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 577