doéccai

Old Irish

Etymology

From dí- +‎ in- +‎ Proto-Celtic *kʷiseti. Related to ad·cí (“to see”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [doˈheːɡɨ]

Verb

do·éccai (prototonic ·déci, verbal noun déicsiu)

1. to behold, to look at, see
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 111^c13

     Is hé ru·fiastar cumachtae inna díglae do·mbi{u}r-siu húa londas, intí du·écigi{gi} is ar trócairi ⁊ censi du·bir-siu forunni siu innahí fo·daimem ré techt innúnn.

     He who will know the power of the punishment which you sg inflict by means of wrath, it is he who will see that it is for the sake of mercy and gentleness that you inflict on us here the things that we suffer before going there.

Inflection

Complex, class A III present, reduplicated preterite, s future, a subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.	do·reccu (ro-form)		do·écai			do·écet
	prot.	·déccu		·déci		·décaid
imperfect indicative	deut.			do·n-écad			do·écitis
	prot.
preterite	deut.			da·n-écachae (with infixed pronoun a-)
	prot.
perfect	deut.	do·reccacha					do·recatar, do·recachtar
	prot.			·dercachae
future	deut.	do·n-écucus		du·écigi
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.		de·n-écaither					do·écastar
	prot.	·dercar (ro-form)	·dercaither (ro-form)		·decamar			·deccastar
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative			décce, déicce	décad		décith, décaid
verbal noun		déicsiu
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

• >? Middle Irish: fégaid, féchaid
  • Irish: féach
  • Scottish Gaelic: feuch
    • ⇒ Scottish Gaelic: feuchail
      • → Irish: fiacháil

Mutation

Mutation of doéccai

radical	lenition	nasalization
do·éccai (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	do·n-éccai

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “doéccai”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 489