duacair

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ ad- +‎ gairid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duˈhaɡərʲ/

Verb

du·acair (verbal noun tacrae)

1. to plead
   • 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. 6^b28

     Taiccéra cách dara chen⟨n⟩ fessin.

     Everyone will plead on his own behalf.

Inflection

Complex, class B II present, t preterite, é future, a subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.			du·acair; do·agair			tod·acrat (with infixed pronoun d-)
	prot.	·taccru		tacrus (relative simplex)
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.				do·racartmar
	prot.
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	deut.	do·aicér
	prot.	·tacér		·taiccéra
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.		·tacrai	·tacra
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		tacrae
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: tacraid
  • Irish: tagair
  • Scottish Gaelic: tagair

Mutation

Mutation of duacair

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

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-accair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language