doaurchain

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *toɸareuɸokaneti. By surface analysis, to- +‎ ar- +‎ fo- +‎ canaid. Alternatively, Pedersen has ro- as the third prefix instead of fo-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /doˈhau̯r.xənʲ/,

Verb

do·aurchain (prototonic ·tirchain, verbal noun tairchetal)

  1. to foretell, prophesy

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, a future
active passive
singular plural singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
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.
prot.
present subjunctive deut.
prot.
past subjunctive deut.
prot.
imperative
verbal noun tairchetal
past participle terchantu (dative singular)
verbal of necessity

Quotations

  • 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. 4d8
    Tairchechuin resíu for·cuimsed.
    He prophesied before it happened.
  • 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.

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutation of do·aurchain
radical lenition nasalization
do·aurchain
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
do·aurchain 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

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 676.9, pages 480–481

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