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

(Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ˠɔxəɾˠ/
(Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ˠɔxəɾˠ/, /ˈd̪ˠɞxəɾˠ/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ˠʌxəɾˠ/

Noun

dochar m (genitive singular dochair)

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

Related terms

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.

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dochar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dochor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 67