dochrud

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From do- (dys-) +‎ cruth (form), literally "ill-formed".

Pronunciation

Adjective

dochrud

  1. unseemly, unsightly, degrading
    Antonym: sochrud
    • 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. 13b6
      .i. bad óinfeir nod·pridcha ar is dochruth comirsire na desse ɫ. in tríir. Etarcertar oinfer inchrud-sin.
      Let there be one man who preaches it, because the barking of two or three is unseemly.

Inflection

With syncope and anaptyxis:

u-stem
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative dochrud dochrud dochrud
vocative dochrud
accusative dochrud dochraid
genitive dochraid dochuirde dochraid
dative dochrud dochraid dochrud
plural masculine feminine/neuter
nominative dochuirdi dochuirdi
vocative dochuirdi
accusative dochuirdi
genitive *
dative dochuirdib

*not attested in Old Irish; same as nominative singular masculine in Middle Irish

Without syncope:

u-stem
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative dochrud dochrud dochrud
vocative dochrud
accusative dochrud dochraid
genitive dochraid dochraide dochraid
dative dochrud dochraid dochrud
plural masculine feminine/neuter
nominative dochraidi dochraidi
vocative dochraidi
accusative dochraidi
genitive *
dative dochraidib

*not attested in Old Irish; same as nominative singular masculine in Middle Irish

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: dochraid

Mutation

Mutation of dochrud
radical lenition nasalization
dochrud dochrud
pronounced with /ð-/
ndochrud

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

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