douic

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

do·uic is the preterite of *do·ucai (“to bring”, augmented), originally the causative of do·icc (“to come”), from Proto-Celtic *onkīti (literally “to make come”). Cognate with Middle Welsh heb-r-wng (“to lead, bring”).[1] Not related to Old Irish do·ucai (“to understand”).[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [doˈhuɡʲ]

Verb

do·uic

  1. third-person singular perfect deuterotonic of do·beir

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
do·uic unchanged do·n-uic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*h₂nek̑-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 283
  2. Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) “*-u-n-k-e/o-”, in Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, page 653
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