doimmoirc

Old Irish

Etymology

Synchronically analyzable as to- (towards) + imm- (around) + orgaid (to strike).

Verb

do·immoirc (verbal noun timmorcon)

  1. to press
  2. to control, restrain, constrain
    • Diarmait, c. 800–825, 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. 90a9
      follnaither (.i. Salamon) .i. bith flaithem intí Solam for saint ⁊ ní leicfither flaithemnacht du saint etir acht du·immarthar húand ríg .i. húa Solmain ɔnaba flaith.
      That he (i.e. Solomon) rule, i.e. being king over cupidity, and sovereignty will not be permitted to cupidity at all, but it will be restrained by the king, i.e. by Solomon, so that it shall not be sovereign.

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