doáirci

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ ad- +‎ ro- +‎ ·icc. Alternatively a denominative from tairec (“preparations”), itself from to- +‎ ar- +‎ ·icc. Le Mair believes the verb root was instead ·uic, the related causative counterpart of ·icc, which would explain the weak inflection and the aberrant unpalatalized form ·tarcat in the Würzburg Glosses. She explains other palatalized forms as analogical.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doˈhaːrʲɡʲi/

Verb

do·áirci (prototonic ·táirci, verbal noun táirciud or tárcud)

1. to cause, to effect, to bring about

   Synonyms: ar·áili, fo·fera, im·folngai

   • 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. 15^b28

     A mbás tíagme-ni do·áirci bethid dúibsi .i. is ar bethid dúibsi tíagmi-ni bás.

     The death to which we go causes life to you pl, i.e. it is for the sake of life to you that we go to death.

2. to produce

Inflection

Complex, class A II present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			do·áirci, do·áircci			du·áirceat
	Prot.			·tárci, ·táirci			·táircet, ·tárcat	·táirrcether	·táirciter
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.						·táircitis
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.		·táircis
Perfect	Deut.			du·ráirric, do·ráricc, do·rárricc
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.			du·áircibed
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.			du·áircea, du·áirrcea	du·áircem		du·áircet
	Prot.					·tárcaid		·táircither
Past subjunctive	Deut.			du·áirced
	Prot.						·táircitis
Imperative				táirged, táirced		táircid
Verbal noun		táirciud, tárcud, tárrgud
Past participle		táircide
Verbal of necessity		táircidi, táircithi

Derived terms

• con·táirci
• fo·táirci
• in·táirci
• rem·táirci

 

Descendants

• Irish: táirg

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
do·áirci (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	do·n-áirci
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “doáirci”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 553