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dotuit

dotuit

Old Irish

Verb

do·tuit (prototonic ·tuit, verbal noun tothaimm)

  1. to fall (move to a lower position under the effect of gravity; come down or descend)

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: do·fuit, ·tuit
    • Irish: tit
    • Manx: tuitt
    • Scottish Gaelic: tuit

References

  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*tudo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-17336-1, page 393
  2. Stüber, Karin (1998) The Historical Morphology of n-stems in Celtic (Maynooth Studies in Celtic Linguistics; III), Maynooth: The Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, ISBN 0-901519-54-5, pages 76–77
  3. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*kerV-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-17336-1, page 202
  • 1 do·tuit” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.