doaurchain
Old Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *toɸareuɸokaneti.[1] By surface analysis, to- + ar- + fo- + canaid. Alternatively, Pedersen has ro- as the third prefix instead of fo-.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]do·aurchain (prototonic ·tirchain, verbal noun tairchetal)
- 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. 7a2
- is díimsa tairrchet ad·cichitis genti per mé
- Of me it has been prophesied that the Gentiles will see by means of me.
Inflection
[edit]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. | ||||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Verbal noun | tairchetal | ||||||||
| Past participle | terchantu (dative singular) | ||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Mutation
[edit]| 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.
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*to-fare-ufo-kan-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 382
- ^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 676.9, pages 480–481
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do-airchain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *keh₂n-
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms prefixed with to-
- Old Irish terms prefixed with ar-
- Old Irish terms prefixed with fo-
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish verbs
- Old Irish terms with quotations
- Old Irish complex verbs
- Old Irish class B I present verbs
- Old Irish reduplicated preterite verbs
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