dodcad

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• dodced

Etymology

From do- (“bad”) +‎ tocad (“fortune”).

Noun

dodcad m (genitive dodcaid, no plural)

1. bad luck, misfortune

   Antonym: sothcad

   • 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. 2^b3

     .i. dodcad do chách leo-som nochis doib-som a dodced-sidi.

     i.e. [they deem it] a misfortune to everyone [else] although the misfortune of it is [really] their own.

   • 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. 100^a3

     .i. ro·bói a sain-dodcad for cach, connarbú huaín doib coíniud a n-óg.

     i.e. on each was his peculiar misfortune, so that they had no leisure to bewail their virgins.

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	dodcad	—	—
Vocative	dodcaid	—	—
Accusative	dodcadN	—	—
Genitive	dodcaidL	—	—
Dative	dodcadL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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