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Old Irish
Etymology
Apparently a pretonic variant of what would become Middle Irish tochim, the verbal noun of do·cing.
Preposition
dochum (triggers eclipsis) (+ genitive)
- to, towards
- Synonym: co
- 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. 3a14
.i. iar cosmilius a báis-som. Arin corp marbde frissa·roscar-som in passione, ní·fil taidchur dó dochum in choirp-sin acht is i corp spirtáldae ind eséirgi cen frescsin báis na hirchri.- i.e. according to the likeness of his death. For the mortal body from which He has parted in passione, there is no return for him to that body, but it is into the spiritual body of the Resurrection without expectation of death or decay.
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