dodcad

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From do- (“bad”) +‎ tocad (“fortune”).

Noun

dodcad m (genitive dodcaid, no plural)

  1. bad luck, misfortune
    Antonym: sothcad
    • 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. 2b3
      .i. dodcad do chách leo-som nochis doib-som a dodced-sidi.
      i.e. a misfortune to everyone although the misfortune of it is their own.
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 100a3
      .i. ro·bói a sain-dodcad for cach, connarbú huaín doib coíniud a n-óg.
      i.e. on each was his peculiar misfortune, so that they had no leisure to bewail their virgins.

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative dodcad — —
Vocative dodcaid — —
Accusative dodcadN — —
Genitive dodcaidL — —
Dative dodcadL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
dodcad dodcad
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ 		ndodcad
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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