domeiccethar

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dī-mikneti (literally dis-admire); compare Welsh dirmygu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /doˈmʲeɡʲəθər/

Verb

do·meiccethar (prototonic ·dimicedar, verbal noun dímiccem, dímicen)

  1. to despise
    • 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. 21d3
      Niba dimicthe-se libsi cía·béo i fochidib, ar [is] gloria dúibsi ón
      I should not be despised by you although I may be in sufferings: for this is glory to you

Conjugation

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
do·meiccethar
also do·mmeiccethar
do·meiccethar
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

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