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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish droch (“bad”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *drukos. Cognates include Welsh drwg, Breton drog, Scottish Gaelic droch.
Pronunciation
Prefix
droch-
- bad
- ill-, mal-
Usage notes
- In Irish, this affix acts both as an adjectival prefix (creating adjectives) and as an adjectival (modifying nouns). It lenites the word to which it attaches:
- It is written without a hyphen except for words beginning with ch:
- droch- + croí (“heart”) → droch-chroí (“weak heart; evil disposition, ill will”)
- droch- + cumann (“friendship, love; companionship, company”) → droch-chumann (“bad companionship, evil association, illicit love”)
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See also
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| droch-
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dhroch-
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ndroch-
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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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References
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 droch”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 242, page 122
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 70
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