dowcio

Welsh

Alternative forms

• towcio

Etymology

Borrowed from dialectal English dook, dowk, douk (“dunk, plunge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdou̯kjɔ/

Verb

dowcio (first-person singular present dowciaf)

1. (Northwest Wales, transitive) to dunk, to plunge

   Synonyms: trochi, suddo

2. (Northwest Wales, intransitive) to plunge, to dive

   Synonyms: plymio, deifio

Conjugation

Conjugation (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third
present indicative/future	dowciaf	dowcii	dowci, dowcia	dowciwn	dowciwch	dowciant	dowciir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional	dowciwn	dowciit	dowciai	dowciem	dowciech	dowcient	dowciid
preterite	dowciais	dowciaist	dowciodd	dowciasom	dowciasoch	dowciasant	dowciwyd
pluperfect	dowciaswn	dowciasit	dowciasai	dowciasem	dowciasech	dowciasent	dowciasid, dowciesid
present subjunctive	dowciwyf	dowciych	dowcio	dowciom	dowcioch	dowciont	dowcier
imperative	—	dowci, dowcia	dowcied	dowciwn	dowciwch	dowcient	dowcier
verbal noun	dowcio
verbal adjectives	dowciedig dowciadwy

Conjugation (colloquial)

inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	dowcia i, dowciaf i	dowci di	dowcith o/e/hi, dowciff e/hi	dowciwn ni	dowciwch chi	dowcian nhw
conditional	dowciwn i, dowcswn i	dowciet ti, dowcset ti	dowciai fo/fe/hi, dowcsai fo/fe/hi	dowcien ni, dowcsen ni	dowciech chi, dowcsech chi	dowcien nhw, dowcsen nhw
preterite	dowciais i, dowcies i	dowciaist ti, dowciest ti	dowciodd o/e/hi	dowcion ni	dowcioch chi	dowcion nhw
imperative	—	dowcia	—	—	dowciwch	—

Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Derived terms

• dowciwr (“diver”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of dowcio

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
dowcio	ddowcio	nowcio	unchanged

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

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “dowcio”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies