docing

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- + cingid (to step).

Verb

do·cing (verbal noun tochim)

  1. to advance, stride forward
    • c. 775, “Táin Bó Fraích”, in Book of Leinster; republished as Ernst Windisch, editor, Táin bó Fraích, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1974, line 115:
      "A mbiad, tucaid isa tech." Do·cing Lóthur for lár in taige.
      [Fróech says] "The food, bring it into the house." Lóthar steps onto the floor of the house [to bring in the food].
    • c. 9th century, Immacallam in dá Thuarad, published in "The Colloquy of the Two Sages", Revue Celtique 26 (1905), pages 4-64, edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes, §265
      La díbad in domuin, do·cichset i mbéolu brátha.
      At the end [perishing, Stokes] of the world, they will go [on] into the presence of the Judgement.

Inflection

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
cing ching cing
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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