dochar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish dochor (“disadvantage, hurt, loss, injury, misery; unfair or disadvantageous contract”), from do-, du- (pejorative or negative prefix) + cor (“act of putting, placing, setting up; act of throwing, casting; act of letting go, discarding”).

Pronunciation

Noun

dochar m (genitive singular dochair)

  1. harm; hurt, injury; loss, distress
    1. (commerce) debit
    2. (jurisprudence) prejudice

Declension
Declension of dochar

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative dochar
Vocative a dhochair
Genitive dochair
Dative dochar

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an dochar
Genitive an dochair
Dative leis an dochar

don dochar

Synonyms
  • sochar m (“valid contract; privileges, dues; emoluments; benefit, profit; advantage, gain; produce”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
dochar dhochar ndochar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • "dochar" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “dochor” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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