dúchas

See also: duchas and duchás

Irish

FWOTD – 20 December 2015

Alternative forms

• dúthchas (superseded)

Etymology

From Old Irish dúthchas (compare Scottish Gaelic dùthchas, Manx dooghys).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ˠuːxəsˠ/

Noun

dúchas m (genitive singular dúchais)

1. hereditary right or claim; birthright, heritage; ancestral estate, patrimony
2. native place or country, ancestral home; traditional connection
3. kindred affection, natural affinity
4. heredity, innate quality, natural bent
5. natural, wild, state; wildness, madness

Declension

Declension of dúchas

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative dúchas Vocative a dhúchais Genitive dúchais Dative dúchas

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an dúchas Genitive an dúchais Dative leis an dúchas don dúchas

Synonyms

• (heredity): oidhreacht, sinsearacht
• (nature): nádúr

Derived terms

• dúchasach m (“hereditary proprietor; hereditary head (of community); hereditary follower; native, inhabitant”)
• dúchasach (“hereditary, ancestral; inherited, inherent; innate, instinctive; native, indigenous; inheritable”, adjective)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
dúchas	dhúchas	ndúchas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dúchas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dúthchas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 32