doaurchain

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• do·erchain

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *toɸareuɸokaneti. By surface analysis, to- +‎ ar- +‎ fo- +‎ canaid. Alternatively, Pedersen has ro- as the third prefix instead of fo-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doˈhau̯r.xənʲ/, [doˈhau̯rxɨnʲ]

Verb

do·aurchain (prototonic ·tirchain, verbal noun tairchetal)

1. to foretell, prophesy

   Synonym: do·airngir

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 7^a2

     is díimsa tairrchet ad·cichitis genti per mé

     Of me it has been prophesied that the Gentiles will see by means of me.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, a future

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.	do·aurchanaimm		do·erchain, do·aurchain			do·erchanat	du·erchanar
	Prot.			·tirchain
Imperfect indicative	Deut.			do·erchanad			do·airchantais
	Prot.			·tercanad			·tairchantais
Preterite	Deut.			do·aircechain, do·aurchechain			do·airrcechnatar	do·archet
	Prot.			·tairchechuin			·tairchechnatar		·taircheta
Perfect	Deut.							do·arrchet
	Prot.							·tarrchet, ·tairrchet
Future	Deut.			dod·ercachna
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun		tairchetal
Past participle		terchantu (dative singular)
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Mutation of doaurchain

radical	lenition	nasalization
do·aurchain (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	do·n-aurchain

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do-airchain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language