dointaí

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Old Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From to- +‎ ind- +‎ soid (to turn).

Verb[edit]

do·intaí (verbal noun tintúd)

  1. to return, turn back
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 54d3
      .i. nad ndechuid a ernaig[de] huadsom dochum nDæ, acht du·intarrae inna ucht fesin iterum.
      i.e. that his prayer had not gone from him to God, but had turned back again to his own bosom.
  2. to translate
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 37a10
      h[ú]are as necen ɔdib oín-son tintá in son n-Ebraide cosnaib il-chiallaib techtas
      because it is necessary that it be one word which should translate the Hebrew word with the many meanings that it has

Inflection[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
do·intaí unchanged do·n-intaí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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