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deoch

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish deug.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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deoch f (genitive singular , nominative plural deochanna or deocha)

  1. drink; draught, potion
    Proverb: Is túisce deoch ná scéal.One should offer a drink before asking for news.
  2. quantity of liquid; infusion, wash

Declension

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With strong plural:

Declension of deoch (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative deoch deochanna
vocative a dheoch a dheochanna
genitive deochanna
dative deoch
digh (archaic, dialectal)
deochanna
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an deoch na deochanna
genitive na na ndeochanna
dative leis an deoch
leis an digh (archaic, dialectal)
don deoch
don digh (archaic, dialectal)
leis na deochanna

With weak plural:

Declension of deoch (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative deoch deocha
vocative a dheoch a dheocha
genitive deoch
dative deoch
digh (archaic, dialectal)
deocha
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an deoch na deocha
genitive na na ndeoch
dative leis an deoch
leis an digh (archaic, dialectal)
don deoch
don digh (archaic, dialectal)
leis na deocha

Derived terms

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Verb

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deoch (present analytic deochann, future analytic deochfaidh, verbal noun deochadh, past participle deochta)

  1. (transitive) immerse, cover with liquid

Conjugation

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of deoch
radical lenition eclipsis
deoch dheoch ndeoch

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish deug.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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deoch f (genitive singular dighe or dibhe, plural deochan or deochannan)

  1. drink
  2. drunkenness
    Tha an deoch orm.
    I am drunk.

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutation of deoch
radical lenition
deoch dheoch

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “deoch”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “deog, deoch”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language