trócar
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Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *trougokaros, from *trougos (“wretched”) + *-karos (“loving”). Compare Welsh trugar.
/-k-/ is the phonologically regular outcome of earlier /-ɣx-/, from -gok- by lenition of intervocalic consonants followed by syncope of the unstressed vowel.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]trócar
Inflection
[edit]o/ā-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | trócar | trócar | trócar |
Vocative | trócair* trócar** | ||
Accusative | trócar | trócair | |
Genitive | trócair | trócaire | trócair |
Dative | trócar | trócair | trócar |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | trócair | trócara | |
Vocative | trócaru trócara† | ||
Accusative | trócaru trócara† | ||
Genitive | trócar | ||
Dative | trócaraib | ||
Notes | *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative |
Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
trócar | thrócar | trócar pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trócar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language