douic

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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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do·uic is the preterite of *do·ucai (to bring, augmented), originally the causative of do·icc (to come), from Proto-Celtic *onkīti (literally to make come). Cognate with Middle Welsh heb-r-wng (to lead, bring).[1] Not related to Old Irish do·ucai (to understand).[2]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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do·uic

  1. third-person singular perfect deuterotonic of do·beir

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
do·uic
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged do·n-uic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*h₂nek̑-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 283
  2. ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) “*-u-n-k-e/o-”, in Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, page 653