dorochoíni

Old Irish

Etymology

dí- +‎ ro- +‎ coínid

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̪oˈro.xoːi̯.nʲi/

Verb

do·rochoíni (verbal noun derchoíniud)

1. to despair (of)
   • 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. 57^d11

     Ní derchoínfet a n‑íc hó Día.

     They will not despair of their salvation from God.

Conjugation

Complex, class A II present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.
	prot.						·derochoínet
imperfect indicative	deut.						du·rochoíntis
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.				do·rochoínsem		do·rochoínset
	prot.			·ruderchoín
future	deut.
	prot.						·derchoínfet
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.						·derchoínet
past subjunctive	deut.							do·rochoínte
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		derchoíniud
past participle		derchoínte
verbal of necessity

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do·rochoíni”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language