doburchú
Appearance
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *dubrokū. By surface analysis, dobur (“water”) + cú (“hound”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]doburchú m (genitive doburchon)
- otter
- c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 424
- dobarcú .i. cú uisci
- otter, that is: hound of water
- c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 424
Declension
[edit]Masculine n-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | doburchú | doburchoinL | doburchoin |
Vocative | doburchú | doburchoinL | doburchonaH |
Accusative | doburchoinN | doburchoinL | doburchonaH |
Genitive | doburchon | doburchonL | doburchonN |
Dative | doburchoinL, doburchúL | doburchonaib | doburchonaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
[edit]- Irish: dobharchú
- Manx: dooarchoo
- Scottish Gaelic: dobhar-chù
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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doburchú | doburchú pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ |
ndoburchú |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “doburchú”, 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 *dʰewbʰ-
- Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish compound terms
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish nouns
- Old Irish masculine nouns
- Old Irish terms with quotations
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