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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish dochor (“disadvantage, hurt, loss, injury, misery; unfair or disadvantageous contract”), from do-, du- (pejorative or negative prefix) + cor (“act of putting, placing, setting up; act of throwing, casting; act of letting go, discarding”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dochar m (genitive singular dochair)
- harm; hurt, injury; loss, distress
- (finance) debit
- (law) prejudice
Declension
Synonyms
- sochar m (“valid contract; privileges, dues; emoluments; benefit, profit; advantage, gain; produce”)
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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dochar
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dhochar
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ndochar
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dochar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dochor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 67