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
2. (finance) debit
3. (law) prejudice

Declension

Declension of dochar (first declension, no plural)

bare forms 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

Mutated forms of dochar

radical	lenition	eclipsis
dochar	dhochar	ndochar

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• 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