dodíchet

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ dí- +‎ com- +‎ feidid.

Verb

do·díchet

1. to lead, bring
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 8^a8

     Da·ṅdichdet snechti Ioivis.

     The snows of Jupiter will bring him down.

2. augmented form of do·tét (“to come”)
   • c. 700, Críth Gablach, published in Críth Gablach (1941, Dublin: Stationery Office), edited by Daniel Anthony Binchy, §6

     Cid ara n-eperr fer midb[oth] don[d] fi[u]r-so? Arindí do·n[d]íchet a mmaici, a ddligud altruma, ⁊ nád roig fertaig.

     Why is this man called a fer midboth? Because he may come out of boyhood by right of fosterage, and he does not reach [the ownership of] a fertach of land.

Inflection

This verb additionally appears to serve as the source for the augmented forms of do·tét (“to come”). Further inflections may be found under there.

Complex, class B I present, suffixless preterite, s future, s subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.						da·ṅdichdet (with infixed pronoun a-)
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.							du·derces
	prot.
future	deut.							du·dichestar
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.			·tuidich
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun
past participle		tuidchisse
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of do·díchet

radical	lenition	nasalization
do·díchet	do·díchet pronounced with /ðʲ-/	do·ndíchet

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