doicc

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• do·ficc

Etymology

From Old Irish do·icc.

Verb

do·icc

1. to come (move from further away to nearer to)
   • c. 1000, “The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig”, in Ernst Windisch, editor, Irische Texte, volume 1, published 1800, section 1:

     Tancas o Ailill ocus o Meidb do chungid in chon. I n‑oen uair dana tancatar ocus techta Conchobair mic Nessa do chungid in chon chetna.

     People came from Ailill and from Medb to ask for the dog. At the same time, then, messengers came also from Conchobar Mac Nessa to ask for the same dog.

Conjugation

• Third person plural preterite: táncatar
• Preterite autonomous: táncas

Descendants

• Irish: tig
• Scottish Gaelic: thig
• Manx: çheet

Mutation

Mutation of doicc

radical	lenition	nasalization
do··icc	unchanged	do··n-icc

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Middle 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), “doicc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ ·icc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doˈhʲiɡʲ/

Verb

do·icc (prototonic ·ticc, verbal noun tíchtu or tiacht)

1. (transitive) to come to, approach
2. (intransitive) to come (move from further away to nearer to)

   Synonym: do·tét

   • 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. 27^c4

     Ɔna tíssed etir in dígal; níba samlid insin, acht du·fïastar tra cenn-som.

     So that the vengeance should not come at all; that will not be so, but punishment will be inflicted because of them.

     (literally, “…one will punish…”)

Conjugation

Complex, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, f future, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			do·icc			do·ecat
	Prot.		·tici	·ticc				·tecar
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.			·ticed			·tictis
Preterite	Deut.		do·ánac	do·ánaic			do·áncatar
	Prot.	·tánac	·tánac	·tánaic	·táncamar		·táncatar	·tícht
Perfect	Deut.			do·ránaic			do·ráncatar
	Prot.
Future	Deut.			do·icfa			do·icfet
	Prot.	·ticub		·ticfea			·ticfat
Conditional	Deut.			do·icfad			do·icfitis
	Prot.	·ticfainn		·ticfed
Present subjunctive	Deut.			do·í
	Prot.	·tís	·tís	·tí	·tísam	·tísaid	·tísat	·tístar
Past subjunctive	Deut.			do·ísed			do·ístais
	Prot.	·tísinn		·tísed, ·tíssed	·tísmais		·tístais	·tístae
Imperative			tair	ticed			tecat	tecar
Verbal noun		tíchtu, tiacht
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: do·icc, do·ficc
  • Irish: tig
  • Scottish Gaelic: thig
  • Manx: çheet

Mutation

Mutation of doicc

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

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), “doicc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language