domeil

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• do·mmeil, to·mel

Etymology

From to- +‎ meilid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̪oˈmʲelʲ/

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. 18^a10

     Ní tormult far mbíad ꝉ for n-étach.

     I have not used up your pl food or your 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. 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

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
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

Mutation of do·meil

radical	lenition	nasalization
do·meil also do·mmeil	do·meil pronounced with /β̃ʲ-/	do·meil also do·mmeil

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·meil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913), Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 577