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)

1. 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

• díobháil
• damáiste

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.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dochar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, 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