dofeid

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• do·fed, do·fet

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̪oˈɸʲeðʲ/

Etymology 1

From to- +‎ feidid (“to lead”).

Verb

do·feid (verbal noun tuíden)

1. to go before, to take precedence

Inflection

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

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.			do·fed, do·feid, do·fet
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative				tóided
verbal noun		tuíden
past participle
verbal of necessity

Etymology 2

From dí- (“of, from”) +‎ feidid (“to lead”).

Verb

do·feid (verbal noun díden)

1. to lead, to bring
2. to bring about, to cause

Inflection

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

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.			do·fed, do·feid, do·fet			do·fedhat
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.		ta·feid, ton·feid (with infexed pronoun a-, n-)	dus·feded (with infixed pronoun s-)			dod·feitis (with infixed pronoun d-)
	prot.
preterite	deut.			du·fáid			dut·fidedar (with infixed pronoun t-)
	prot.
perfect	deut.			do·ruid; duda·ruid (with infixed pronoun da-)
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.	do·fessind
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.			don·fé (with infixed pronoun n-)
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		díden
past participle
verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of do·feid

radical	lenition	nasalization
do·feid	do·ḟeid	do·feid pronounced with /β̃ʲ-/

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), “dofeid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Schumacher, Stefan; Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004), “Urkelt. *u̯ed-e/o- ‘(zusammen)führen, fließen’”, in Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Meid, →ISBN, page 656f.
• Gordon, Randall Clark (2012), “fed- ‘lead, bring’”, in Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, 3.1.41., page 198
• Rolf Baumgarten (1983), “Varia III A note on the Táin Bó Regamna”, in Ériu, volume 34, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, page 190