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The Future First Singular of Old Irish Do·Diat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Vernam Hull
Vernam Hull*
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New York University
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Language , Volume 18 , Issue 2-Part1: April-June , June 1942, pp. 140 - 141
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Copyright © 1942 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 H. Pedersen, VGDKS 2.516.

2 Pedersen 2.515 §718.

3 Ml. 45c4 and Thes.Pal. 2.27.

4 K. Meyer, Über die älteste irische Dichtung 2.22; K. Meyer and A. Nutt, The Voyage of Bran 1.5 and fn. 14; Ancient Laws 6.268. For the interchange between d and t in this verb, see R. Thurneysen, Handbuch 1.353 §589. The i in do·feid indicates the palatal quality of the following consonant, but is often omitted after a preceding e.

5 Occasionally do·feid means ‘precedes’; cf. K. Meyer, Zur keltischen Wortkunde §187 fn. 3.

6 As, for example, J. Pender, K. Meyers Nachträge zu Pedersens Verbalverzeichnis, ZCP 18.317 §718, as well as H. Lewis and H. Pedersen, A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar 362 §544.

7 J. Strachan and J. G. O'Keeffe, The Táin Bó Cúailnge 10.

8 Ibid. 10, where, however, it is corruptly spelled ·tuidis.

9 Or perhaps do·fes(s) without u-coloration; cf. Thurneysen 1.365 §622.

10 Originally ·tuus was dissyllabic. For the double u in hiatus which later could be contracted to a single long vowel, compare (ar) thuus ‘(at) first’ from to-essu-.