doaurchain
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- do·erchain
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *toɸareuɸokaneti.[1] Synchronically equivalent to to- + ar- + fo- + canaid. Alternatively, Pedersen has ro- as the third prefix instead of fo-.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /doˈhau̯r.xənʲ/, [doˈhau̯rxɨnʲ]
Verb
do·aurchain (prototonic ·tirchain, verbal noun tairchetal)
- to foretell, prophesy
- Synonym: do·airngir
- 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. 7a2
- is díimsa tairrchet ad·cichitis genti per mé
- Of me it has been prophesied that the Gentiles will see by means of me.
Inflection
Complex, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, a future
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Deut. | do·aurchanaimm | do·erchain, do·aurchain | do·erchanat | du·erchanar | ||||
| Prot. | ·tirchain | ||||||||
| Imperfect indicative | Deut. | do·erchanad | do·airchantais | ||||||
| Prot. | ·tercanad | ·tairchantais | |||||||
| Preterite | Deut. | do·aircechain, do·aurchechain | do·airrcechnatar | do·archet | |||||
| Prot. | ·tairchechuin | ·tairchechnatar | ·taircheta | ||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | do·arrchet | |||||||
| Prot. | ·tarrchet, ·tairrchet | ||||||||
| Future | Deut. | dod·ercachna | |||||||
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| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Verbal noun | tairchetal | ||||||||
| Past participle | terchantu (dative singular) | ||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| do·aurchain | unchanged | do·n-aurchain |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*to-fare-ufo-kan-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 382
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 480
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “do-airchain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language