dodcadchae

Old Irish

Etymology

dodcadach (“unfortunate”) +‎ -e; the former from dodcad (“bad luck”) + -ach; the former from do- + tocad (“luck, fortune”), from Proto-Celtic *tonketos (compare Welsh tynged), from Proto-Indo-European *tenk-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoðɡaðxe/

Noun

dodcadchae f (genitive dodcadchae)

1. infelicity
   • 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. 63^d7

     condan·samailter fri cech ndodcadchai

     so that we are compared to every infelicity

Declension

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	dodcadchaeL	—	—
Vocative	dodcadchaeL	—	—
Accusative	dodcadchaiN	—	—
Genitive	dodcadchae	—	—
Dative	dodcadchaiL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
dodcadchae	dodcadchae pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndodcadchae
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), “dodcadchae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language